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Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. film, art Having the character of film noir
Etymologies
- noir + -ish (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Those "noirish" lines rolled off her tongue probably better than anyone else's in that movie, save maybe Mickey Rourke.”
“The entire book is a kind of noirish quest as Cicero struggles to learn what is real and what is false.”
“His place in the film is ambiguous, and one gets the sense that he's there only because Melville was naturally drawn to that kind of noirish image, a predecessor of Alain Delon's cold/cool hitman from Le samourai.”
“Fans of David Slade, the acclaimed director of cult hits including the psycho-sexual thriller “Hard Candy” and the graphic novel noirish vampire flick “30 Days of Night,” might be shocked to discover that the man has a sweeter side.”
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“Turning from his comedic work at Britain's Ealing Studios to direct this noirish, all-American masterpiece about greed, ambition, and the perversity of power, Alexander MacKendrick relied on estimable playwright Clifford Odets and writer Ernest Lehman for their scripting talent.”
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“Kemal Kayankaya is all that and sometimes worse, and yet this ethnic-Turk-in-Frankfurt moral scourge is as winning a noirish gumshoe as has swooped onto the mystery scene in some time.”
“In the midst of all the noirish goings-on, the couple's shared Catholicism provides a tortured moral backdrop to their relationship, and to Pinkie's criminality.”
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“Kid Congo Powers and the Monkey Birds play a noirish blend of garage-surf-punk that's like the soundtrack to a psychedelic funhouse.”
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“As for the works that include human figures, many involve absurdity, melancholy or noirish violence.”
“It was sent to me for review by SFX magazine, and I accepted it without any particular preconceptions, whether positive or negative - I knew that the author had written a noirish book involving werewolves, but that was about it.”
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Middlesex
Gleanings from Jeffrey Eugenides' 2002 book of that title.
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good words if used sparingly
Words that I don't want to forget, but that require caution in their use.
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grandpa27 noirish = noir like. Noir is french and means ? Apr 5, 2009
mollusque A scene like this, a ransom scene, calls for a noirish mood: shadows, sinister silhouettes. But the sky wasn't cooperating. We were having one of our pink nights.
—Jeffrey Eugenides, 2002, Middlesex, p. 502 Aug 16, 2008