noir
Americanadjective
adjective
Example Sentences
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“It’s a film noir that is also starring cartoon characters, and it’s got this collision of tones,” Green says of Zemeckis’ landmark, a movie that somehow bridges bonk-on-the-head mania with a voluptuous femme fatale.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
And the setting is not gritty city noir, but the kind of struggling small town that Russo, raised in working-class Gloversville, N.Y., has made his signature.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Farrell is terrific, as always, as an empathetic gumshoe investigating a trail of crime and corruption that rings true to devotees of L.A. noir, from Raymond Chandler to “Chinatown” to Jordan Harper.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
On my last trip abroad, I took eight books for a three-week holiday, ranging from Frank Herbert's sci-fi epic Dune to James Ellroy's noir throwback The Black Dahlia.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
It couldn’t have helped matters that William had mentioned, early on, that a French waitress had complimented him on his ‘“belle noir cheveux’”—his “good-looking black hair.”
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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