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- adjective Of or pertaining to George Orson Welles (1915–1985), American director, actor, and screenwriter.
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Examples
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Enter Richard Linklater, the director of such distinctly un-Wellesian movies as "Dazed and Confused" and "School of Rock," who last year made a film called "Me and Orson Welles" that was recently released on DVD.
Relishing a Lost Production Terry Teachout 2010
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Regen Wilson is the ringleader as Welles, and while he doesn't have the uncanny Wellesian presence that Dan Brick summoned in the role at DCAC, he does have a naughty Mephistophelean grin.
Review: Scena Theatre's 'The War of the Worlds' at H Street Playhouse Nelson Pressley 2010
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The outlines of this intrigue are made apparent right from the start, and despite a very effective Wellesian suspense sequence in which Leopold makes his escape through a rainy bog, accompanied by exclamation-laden newspaper headlines, the film's emphasis is not on its thriller aspects.
The Talk of the Town Ed Howard 2008
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Anderson turns his usual directorial shotgun to full-choke for this masterpiece of Wellesian proportions.
Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2008
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Most of the best Shakespeare productions I've reviewed in this space -- and all of the worst ones -- have been revisionist stagings executed along Wellesian lines.
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Like all one-time Bostonians who have been chased west of town by the Wellesian extravagance of the housing market, I spend a great deal of my life on the Massachusetts Turnpike.
Archive 2006-10-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2006
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The outlines of this intrigue are made apparent right from the start, and despite a very effective Wellesian suspense sequence in which Leopold makes his escape through a rainy bog, accompanied by exclamation-laden newspaper headlines, the film's emphasis is not on its thriller aspects.
Archive 2008-11-01 Ed Howard 2008
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Like all one-time Bostonians who have been chased west of town by the Wellesian extravagance of the housing market, I spend a great deal of my life on the Massachusetts Turnpike.
Les animaux modèles Matthew Guerrieri 2006
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I own "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" on video, and while it's hardly Wellesian, it's quite amusing.
anne-jumps Diary Entry anne-jumps 2001
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With other directors, it's Spielbergian, Wellesian, Hitchcockian … but the only thing I can come up with in your case is Watersesque.
News & Politics 2010
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