noirish

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  • Haden, who leads such jazz groups as the noirish Quartet West and leftist Liberation Music Orchestra, sees the common link between jazz and country in that both are poor people's music related to "the struggle for independence, identity and to be recognized." —  Brandon Sun Online - Top Stories
  • Right now, I'm regretting the loss of markets for dark, noirish, suspense fiction, the kind Murderland was publishing. —  Storytellersunplugged
  • It screens at 7: 30 p.m. Slightly more noirish, but with a decided expressionistic tilt, is another meller,
  • Inevitably, a fatally film-noirish love triangle devours the protagonists as the robbery scheme is set into motion. —  Cleveland Scene
  • Next they wrote a noirish thriller about blackmail in the Hamptons, but after that first effort failed to interest an agent or a buyer, Penn recalls, "The smart thing we did was having the foresight not to send out the second one." —  This Distracted Globe
 

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