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- adjective Reminiscent of Harold Pinter or his works
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"Pinteresque" is an adjective listed in the Oxford Dictionary.
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2005 - Presentation Speech 2005
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The corrected version, following a painful pause that could only be described as Pinteresque, was more of a shock: he hadn't died, he'd simply been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Silence Is Golden 2007
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His style was so distinctive, "Pinteresque" entered the Oxford English Dictionary. '
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His style was so distinctive, 'Pinteresque' entered the Oxford English Dictionary.
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That he occupies a position as a modern classic is illustrated by his name entering the language as an adjective used to describe a particular atmosphere and environment in drama: "Pinteresque".
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"'Pinteresque' has become not only a shorthand descriptor of his own work but the marker of an enigmatically charged emotional state."
The Online News Page 2009
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'phil melanie', 'Pinteresque' and 'Matthew Blott' - all so illiterate they criticise Melanie Phillips for something written by Walid Phares.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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The sutura is a special case perhaps, because it runs the gamut from Pinteresque conversational/behavioural non sequiturs like in THE BIRTHDAY PARTY (where the disruption of conventional conversational logic is designed to force a re-evaluation of the system itself, a search for a truer logic of human interactions) to out-and-out breaches of causality like in BUFFET FROID.
Modality and Hamlet Hal Duncan 2010
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The playwright is clearly striving for Dennis Potter style moments of rapture; sadly he achieves only a bizarre and unintentional effect of Pinteresque non sequitur.
Critique From HereNow Hal Duncan 2009
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The sutura is a special case perhaps, because it runs the gamut from Pinteresque conversational/behavioural non sequiturs like in THE BIRTHDAY PARTY (where the disruption of conventional conversational logic is designed to force a re-evaluation of the system itself, a search for a truer logic of human interactions) to out-and-out breaches of causality like in BUFFET FROID.
Archive 2010-01-01 Hal Duncan 2010
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