Pinter
noun
Harold, 1930–2008, English playwright.
Pinteresque
-
a word derived from
Pinter.
Example Sentences
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It is there that they must await further orders from their sinister cockney boss, Harry, played with a variety of quaint glottal stops and Pinteresque menace by Fiennes.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 28, 2021
The general impression is Hitchcockian or, perhaps because it’s at the National, I first thought Pinteresque, though without the metaphysics.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2016
“People speak in Pinteresque non sequiturs punctuated with equally Pinteresque silences.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2016
“From an economic standpoint, what you’re saying is problematic, to say the least,” he says, in clunkily verbose contrast to the God-child’s Pinteresque conciseness.
From Time ● Dec. 13, 2014
He had the rare honor of earning his own adjective: Pinteresque, that distinctive mood of unnamed menace that permeated his work.
From Time Magazine Archive
