Sentence examples for like a noir from inspiring English sources

He clammed up like a noir desk clerk.

He's like a noir Midas: every L.A. address mentioned in his stories turns to black.

Backstage, he and Ms. Menzel vamp up Elphaba -- like a noir version of Frenchy dolling up Sandy in "Grease".

He had been sneaking around like a noir hero for two and a half weeks, finding new and shadowy exits to his regular places.

It's doubly jarring that the resulting dialogue sounds very 21st-century (except when, occasionally, it sounds like a noir detective film), even as the makeup is recreating the 1919 look.

Though he uses the fog like a noir director of old, Kim also aesthetically explores its atmospheric effect on light how it diffuses light in beautiful ways, but also changes its color and depth.

There's a certain mood that runs through this novel--a noir-like mood shaped by notable writing, bringing the reader into a dangerous place, one that often mirrors our land of the free and home of the brave, except the free have become enslaved by an agenda and the brave radically react out of fear-mongering.

The script read like a film noir, so he's been taking cues from "American noir movies of the 40s and neo-noirs such as Se7en and Michael Mann's The Insider".

High boots that looked like tights, ladylike innocent/fatale, a noir muse swooning and shining through textured pythons, retro-chic built with false sequins/chenille-like fur/ cellophane," buttons and belts that reminded me of Sunday outfits worn by my grandmothers, but with an edge.

The familiar industrial orange and black sign for Garber's Hardware in Greenwich Village looks like something out of a noir film or the label on an old oil burner.

What looks like a flat noir thriller could still make for a pretty entertaining police procedural.