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novelty English

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novelty

(= freshness) originality by virtue of being refreshingly novel originality by virtue of being new and surprising (= knickknack) a small inexpensive mass-produced article (= bangle) cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing

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Movie subtitles

That's a novelty.
It was a novelty to have a face to look at without shuddering.
That would be no novelty for me, Lady Catherine.
Miss Novotni and I can manage the novelty window by ourselves.
Quite a novelty seeing you, sir.
Nothing but a common novelty-seeker.
Well, that's a novelty.
They lack novelty.
A wealthy policeman would be a novelty.
That novelty will drill a hole in your mail.
That would be a novelty.
Strictly a novelty, you understand. For the lady and gentleman who has everything, a sterling silver telephone dialler.
I thought the two of you would enjoy the novelty of it.
Well, my first novelty seems to have failed.
In marketing, Universal decided to emphasise the novelty aspect of the film, rather than sell it as a horror film.
Oh! What a novelty!
I know his ideas. Miss Novotni and I can manage the novelty window by ourselves.
I get it. Novelty.
What a lovely idea, Charles. It would be a novelty.
Novelty! What does that mean?
Novelty is as old as the hills!
That will be a novelty from a policeman.
You've got to admit, it'd be a novelty.
The public likes novelty stuff.
Remember that tall brunette, used to do the novelty dances at the Bandwagon?
I hope the novelty's worn off by now.
Well, that's a novelty, your refusing anything with alcohol in it.
It's a sensational novelty doll.
They're tough, they endure, and the moment that starts, they stop caring. Finally, looking at it closely, only novelty can inebriate.
Mr. Ramos, is that the Uncle Paco novelty.
That's it, the under-nine-dollars novelty business.
The ratings for the Thursday and Friday shows. were both 14, but Monday's rating dropped a point. clearly suggesting the novelty was wearing off.
Without a ranked contender, what this fight is gonna need is a novelty.
Whether the novelty of marriage would last.
This was a time when the automobile was a novelty when the pace of life was still determined by the speed of the horse.
The novelty that was our sex life broke down almost immediately.
And such a novelty for me.

News and current affairs

This is a decisive novelty.
This was also a novelty: torture does not appear as a breach of a common standard, unfortunate but justifiable.
They would pay a price, since investors in these bonds would initially demand a novelty premium.
In Western Europe, Japan, and the United States, places where individuality lost its novelty long ago and where the managerial spirit and mass commerce flourish, this sameness may be something to debate.
The constant creation of new needs--when not bounded by a sense of how novelty fits into our lives--may put us on a treadmill of joyless consumption.
Novelty is key.
The novelty this year was the presence of representatives from post-Saddam Iraq, among them an official from the Kurdish Regional Government, as well as a high ranking Shi'a representative.
Now, for the first time, a Jesuit has become pope - and has compounded the novelty by assuming the very un-Jesuit name of Francis.
Outside Russia, of course, the world has been preoccupied by our so-called campaign, probably only because Russia's democracy still seem such a novelty.
The novelty of the rapid economic improvements seen by many city-dwellers in India, China, and elsewhere over the past ten years has insulated governments from the repercussions of poor urban planning.
According to most analysts, the novelty in the announcement was the Fed's willingness to be explicit about its quantitative policy thresholds and, therefore, about the future course of its monetary policy.
The novelty of the world since 2008 is that, for the first time in more than a generation, advanced countries are experiencing debt crises - and starting to look like poor countries with weak institutions.
But, despite the supposed novelty of their vision, their actions seem only to be replicating the self-destructive policies that have brought such agony to Cuba.
France is a marvelously paradoxical country, so the search for novelty, if not modernity, could lead to the reinvention of the Fourth Republic, a parliamentary regime characterized by its weaknesses and instability.
These new divisions would become a reason for new fears, even more serious fears than those caused by the novelty or clumsiness of today's postcommunist democracies.

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