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   Behind much of this were particular concrete New Left movements, some serious, some more rocambolesque.

   2001, “Chapter 14: Structure, Contingency, and Choice”, in Joan Wallach Scott, Debra Keates, editors, Schools of Thought: Twenty-five Years of Interpretive Social Science, Princeton University Press, page 267

   Though not exactly seeking carpet slippers and the reassuring click of knitting needles he had envisaged a future rather less rocambolesque than the plot of the average Tarantino movie.

   2004, Christopher Wood, Sincere Male Seeks Love and Someone to Wash His Underpants, Twenty First Century Publishers, page 18

   The latter in particular was an unlikely candidate for what would turn out to be the most rocambolesque experiences in the entire history of the encounter.

   2017, Matteo Salvadore, The African Prester John and the Birth of Ethiopian-European Relations, 1402-1555, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), page 121