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  • It was with the haunting tale "Cold Water" ( "L'eau froide," 1994) — shot for a French TV series in which directors were commissioned to make films about their lives at age 16 — that he found a freer approach that brought his filmmaking closer to reality without sacrificing artistic experimentation.

    Surveyor of Our Landscape Kristin M. Jones 2010

  • In a category by themselves are pieces such as La nuict froide et sombre Du Bellay, set as an expansive, colouristic tone poem in style even though characteristically brief in actual duration.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009

  • He downplayed his debt to Swope, saying that he had in mind a French phrase from the thirties, la guerre froide.

    The Great Experiment Strobe Talbott 2008

  • He downplayed his debt to Swope, saying that he had in mind a French phrase from the thirties, la guerre froide.

    The Great Experiment Strobe Talbott 2008

  • “Alors,” Arthur said with a smile, gathering his satchel, “peut-être, mon vieux, la guerre froide is not so finie after all.”

    Day of the Dandelion Peter Pringle 2007

  • Je crois qu'faut vraiment qu'j'aille voir un dermato parce que ma peau devient de plus en plus fragile ... ben j'ai mis mes doigts sous l'eau froide apres j'ai passé du nivea baby c tres viril ca du nivea baby.

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2005

  • Bon juste pour dire qu'ajd'hui on m'a encore dit que gt sans coeur, froide, distante, MECHANTE, que tout m'passait a travers ....

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2004

  • Plus la chaleur a 閠� grande pendant le jour, plus la ros閑 est abondante et la nuit froide.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • HIVER, _m. _, la plus froide des quatre saisons de l'année.

    French Conversation and Composition Harry Vincent Wann

  • The foreign breakfast at eleven is a delicious meal, as will be seen by the following bills of fare: _oeufs au beurre noir_; _saut‚ printanier_ (a sort of stew of meat and fresh vegetables); _viande froide panach‚e_; _salade de saison_; _compote de fruit et pƒtisserie_; _fromage_, _fruit_, _caf‚_.

    Manners and Social Usages Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood

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