directorial

[dih-rek-tawr-ee-uhl, -tohr-, dahy-rek-]

adjective

1. pertaining to a director or directorate.

Word History and Origins

Origin of directorial¹

1760–70; < Late Latin dīrēctōri ( us ) ( direct, -tory ¹ ) + -al ¹

Example Sentences

There are a pleasantly surprising number of directorial flourishes in “Maigret”—a thoroughly modern home cast as eerily gothic, for instance; conversational pauses that bend the time limits of conventional TV.

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Harris Dickinson’s feature directorial debut, “Urchin,” introduces us from a distance to its subject in its opening shot.

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He appeared in five different feature films in 1991 alone, a year that included duds like “Nothing But Trouble” as well as a small but potentially transformative role in Oliver Stone’s drama “JFK,” where he played the flamboyant attorney Dean Andrews Jr. He was preparing his own directorial debut, a TV film called “Hostage For a Day” in which he starred with George Wendt.

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The crowd erupted — elated to witness one of the greatest actors of our time step out of retirement to embody a role in his son’s directorial debut.

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It’s the feature directorial debut of Ronan Day-Lewis, who collaborated with his Oscar-winning dad on the screenplay.

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