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- adjective film, art Having the character of
film noir
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Examples
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Those "noirish" lines rolled off her tongue probably better than anyone else's in that movie, save maybe Mickey Rourke.
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The entire book is a kind of noirish quest as Cicero struggles to learn what is real and what is false.
Dominion Ed Gorman 2008
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The entire book is a kind of noirish quest as Cicero struggles to learn what is real and what is false.
Archive 2008-05-01 Ed Gorman 2008
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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.
Archive 2007-12-01 Ed Howard 2007
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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.
Short Film Week, Day 4: Haynes, Melville, Saul Levine Ed Howard 2007
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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.
John Farr: Two Passing Greats: A Tribute to Arthur Penn and Tony Curtis John Farr 2010
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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.
Unlikely gumshoe with grit Richard Lipez 2011
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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.
Unlikely gumshoe with grit Richard Lipez 2011
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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.
TWILIGHT SAGA NEWS FOR MARCH 4TH | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews 2010
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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.
John Farr: Two Passing Greats: A Tribute to Arthur Penn and Tony Curtis John Farr 2010
mollusque commented on the word noirish
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
August 17, 2008
grandpa27 commented on the word noirish
noirish = noir like. Noir is french and means ?
April 5, 2009