femmes fatales
- plural of femme fatale.
Example Sentences
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And he’s as good with actors as ever, drawing expert performances from Park Hae-il as a drifting detective and especially Tang Wei as the most slippery yet sympathetic of femmes fatales.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2022
And not just the femmes fatales, but women like the aforementioned Anne Riordan, the cop’s daughter who helps Marlowe break the case in Farewell, My Lovely.
From Slate ● Jul. 9, 2018
Today’s girls are neither “tough girls,” like that moto-jacketed Salander; nor femmes fatales, like the vixens who dominated noir fiction and films; nor “good girls” like Nancy and her prim posse, Bess and George.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 11, 2017
British period drama intrigues Reggie Watts; cold, calculating femmes fatales await Megan Abbott; and cuddly cartoon emoticons fascinate B. J. Novak.
From New York Times ● Jul. 3, 2014
A couple of dames who were contemporaries of Hammett are the antidote to all this – 40s American femmes fatales Dorothy B Hughes and Margaret Millar, the godmothers of noir.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 29, 2012
