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Zola

[ zoh-luh; French zaw-la ]

noun

  1. É·mile [ey-, meel], 1840–1902, French novelist.


Zola

/ zɔla; ˈzəʊlə /

noun

  1. ZolaÉmile18401902MFrenchWRITING: novelistWRITING: critic Émile (emil). 1840–1902, French novelist and critic; chief exponent of naturalism. In Les Rougon-Macquart (1871–93), a cycle of 20 novels, he explains the behaviour of his characters in terms of their heredity: it includes L'Assommoir (1877), Nana (1880), Germinal (1885), and La Terre (1887). He is also noted for his defence of Dreyfus in his pamphlet J'accuse (1898)


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The popular wedding-planner app Zola uses it to help people make wedding lists, pulling in images and prices.

According to spokesperson Emily Forrest, digital wedding planning and registry website Zola has seen nearly 75% percent of its couples with a 2020 summer date adjust their wedding ceremonies to stick to their original date.

From Fortune

According to Zola, a wedding planning and registry company, about 90% of wedding guests are planning to give a wedding gift no matter what, even if the couple has to reduce their guest list or goes virtual.

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In early April, wedding-registry startup Zola pulled its ads from streaming platforms and television.

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Typically, 25% to 40% of Zola’s media budget is allocated to streaming and TV.

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Okay, not everything in this book meets the standards of realism as practiced by Balzac and Zola.

Germinal by Émile Zola My favorite reportorial 19th-century novel.

Movies about literary lions and lionesses—The Life of Emile Zola (1937) and Out of Africa (1985)—took home the gold statue.

Nor does Mr. Henry James, who in the case of the last-named novel comes to his help against Zola, much mend matters.

While he runs Zola close as a realist, his thoughts and language are as pure as those of Miss Yonge herself.'

A truer and completer picture of war than either Tolstoy or Zola.

Zola seemed to her so magnificent that she was almost frightened at her own enthusiasm and dared not put her feeling into words.

He belongs not only to the "feel" school of novelists, with Zola, but to the "thought" school, with Turgenev.

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