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Pasolini

American  
[pah-suh-lee-nee, pah-saw-lee-nee] / ˌpɑ səˈli ni, ˌpɑ sɔˈli ni /

noun

  1. Pier Paolo, 1922–75, Italian film director and poet.


Pasolini British  
/ pazoˈlini /

noun

  1. Pier Paolo (pjɛr ˈpaːolo). 1922–75, Italian film director. His films include The Gospel according to St Matthew (1964), Oedipus Rex (1967), Theorem (1968), Pigsty (1969), and Decameron (1970)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Example Sentences

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Pasolini uses music as though he were filming a Noh play but with masks off.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2024

A new comedy-drama TV series from the same writer, Simon Beaufoy, and producer, Uberto Pasolini, returns to those characters more than two decades later in a compelling portrait of contemporary Britain.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 16, 2023

They take issues that I quote Duras and Pasolini.

From Salon • Jan. 9, 2023

Weber assembles them to create mini-essays about some still-startling Italian figures, such as the filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini and the actress Anna Magnani.

From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2022

The day on which Count Pasolini gave him a copy of Il Primato he created that great, and under some aspects pathetic illusion, the reforming Pope.

From The Liberation of Italy by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn

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