Sentence examples for noir like from inspiring English sources
Pioneers of 1950s American noir like Ross Macdonald are shown true respect when Vintage Crime's Black Lizard imprint reissues their books in sturdy editions with properly sleazy covers.
The slightly bigger body of the rosé led me to think that I would have preferred a Champagne with a higher percentage of pinot noir, like a Bollinger.
Whereas the customary scenery and set-dressings of noir, like any other genre, seem to suggest realms contrived entirely for the furtherance of a requisite atmosphere, Petit's uncomfortable and mesmerising thriller manages to never step beyond the here-and-now reality shared by the author and his audience.
For decades to come, Earle's stew of conflict and sentiment and inchoate impulse would bubble up in the best American action and suspense films -- in crime epics or films noir like Huston's "Asphalt Jungle" (from another Burnett novel), in westerns like "The Naked Spur" and "The Wild Bunch," in P.O.W. flicks like "Stalag 17" and "The Great Escape" (which Burnett helped write).
Charlie Stratton's In Secret is based on Emile Zola's Therese Raquin -- but were it set in a different time period, it could have been a film noir like Double Indemnity or The Postman Always Rings Twice.
It's also apparently crushable, the kind of easy-drinking red you can chug until your face is stained purple, you develop a hankering for cheese, and you start pronouncing pinot noir like "peanut noor".
Even the noir-like nickname of the suspect conjures an earlier era in crime busting.
Another game, developed for Apple's iPad, takes the player through a series of film-noir-like scenes, each corresponding to a slice of the brain.
"A thriller about the struggle for power, set both in a gloomy, stormy crime noir-like setting and in a dark, paranoid human mind," said Nesbø of Macbeth.
On the surface Watchmen was superhero fiction – powers, cloaks, chins – but it was set in something more like the real world, noir-like and patently intended for grownups.
Rattle worked with Treliński where he could, building to some climaxes with a halting, noir-like approach – whereas James Levine might have privileged a greater sense of flow.
