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No Exit

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noun

  1. a play (1945) by Jean-Paul Sartre.


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In addition, production companies Black Label Media and No Exit Film are liable for $27 million and $9 million in punitive damages, respectively.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 28, 2022

The four are characters in "The Good Place," a satirical comedy about an afterlife that’s best described as a mash-up of historic Christian notions of purgatory and French existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre’s play No Exit.

From Salon • Nov. 30, 2019

It’s part fan theory, part No Exit, and all “the only kind of advertisement I ever want to see ever again ever.”

From Slate • Dec. 19, 2018

The play unfolds as a kind of modernist version of Sartre's "No Exit," in which hell remains other people.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 8, 2015

This is No Exit in its thinnest disguise.”

From Time • Mar. 21, 2013

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