noir
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- adjective
- /nɔr/
- Literature
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de cine negro
- It's like a cyberpunk film noir, but the production level is insane.
- noir fiction
And it's it's just noir crime set in LA and I just loved it.
- And it's it's just noir crime set in LA and I just loved it.
- And, and it was intense and it had thrills and it had a real noir kind of feel to it.
- And I woke up from a dream and said that mixed with my friends real life is a neo noir crime film I've never seen.
- And I woke up from a dream and said that mix with my friend's real life is a neo noir crime film I've never seen.
- And I think that these films, part of the fun of really good noir films is that you get hypnotized.
- Oh, by the way, I just want to say Nick Stark sounds like the name of a a detective in a noir film.
- I think that he's he's quite happy to to be do writing essentially modernist literature, right, Neo noir cast in a cyberpunk situation.
Examples
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After hearing the dialogue between Brendan and Brian, I realized that this was not a high school movie with a noir window dressing, but a noir movie with a high school window dressing.
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And it's it's just noir crime set in LA and I just loved it.
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And I think that these films, part of the fun of really good noir films is that you get hypnotized.
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And, and it was intense and it had thrills and it had a real noir kind of feel to it.
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In the 1940s, film noir emerged, and in the 1950s, noir fiction saw its heyday.
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"I don't think traditional publishing outlets know how to find a large audience for noir or dark fiction," Hirahara says.
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"There are two essential ingredients that separate noir fiction from the rest of the mystery-crime genre: a protagonist lacking a moral center and an unhappy ending."
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Susan Straight, whose noir story "The Golden Gopher" won an Edgar Award, says, "What I love about noir is how the plot moves things along, allowing the author to examine a society or landscape or family in ways that stay vitally adhered to the plot."
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The film's noir atmosphere captivated audiences with its dark themes and complex characters.
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He enjoys reading noir novels that explore the darker side of human nature.
Synonyms
Compounds
A card game with two rows where players bet on the color or row closer to a number
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Noir comes from French noir meaning 'black'. So, to call a mood or style noir is to say it feels 'black'—dark, shadowy, and morally unclear.