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Film noir.
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A production in the style of film noir.
adjective
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Of or pertaining to film noir, or the atmosphere associated with that genre
Examples of noir in a Sentence
On the Causse Noir is found the fantastic chaos of rocks and precipices known as Montpellier-le-Vieux, resembling the ruins of a huge city.
The graphical style is simple and the game has taken on a sort of 1930s film noir look to it.
Noir Detective - focused on a darker side of society.
Also available are worlds like historical, vampire, urban noir, romance, sports, adventure and music.
The great noir was about the darkness in your head.
All the films ' opening sequences contain signifiers of noir masculinity.
The cabinet noir has now disappeared, but the right to open letters in cases of emergency appears still to be retained by the French government; and a similar right is occasionally exercised in England under the direction of a secretary of state, and, indeed, in all civilized countries.
Minority Report is the bits and pieces of great film noir.
The film noir aspect is evident in the costumes.
The results at the general election, and now the local elections results, relegate this to the realm of noir fantasy.
These films often fall into genres like horror, Western and film noir.
A single breasted coat has a longer, slimmer look but a double-breasted coat - so standard in most 1940s noir films - broadens the chest and creates a powerful appearance.
After the war a new kind of detective story (the roman noir or ' dark novel ') did emerge.
Clearly the language used by architects and those in the planning system is something of a bête noir for the champions of plain speech.
I wrote a script called The Blue Moods of Johnny Slade which was more of a crime film noir piece.
Critics have favorably compared NOIR to such genre-defining live-action suspense films as The Professional and La Femme Nikita.
Even the location has a twinge of noir, Basin City is where the action takes place, it is Sin City.
The cost is $415.00 and they are available in horn with java polar, noir with platinum polar, olive tortoise with midnight express, and tungsten with chrome sapphire.
They praised the long finish, suggesting it was one of America's great efforts in Pinot Noir wines.
If you bought a bottle of Pinot Noir for $50 off a mailing list and could turn around and sell it to someone who was not on the mailing list, they will pay you handsomely for it.
Ever wondered how to make boudin noir or air drying your own ham, Hugh can tell you how.
In Jouarre you can also visit a cheese dairy and taste brie de Meaux and brie noir.
The work of Colleen or Cecile Schott bristles with the mystery and magic of the most abstract of scratchy old film noir incidental soundtracks.
Tuesday December 6 Dance, acting and murder in the world of 1940s film noir, as Wolverhampton's Arena Theater presents SILENT MOVIE.
Dr. Lee Horsley works on film noir in relation to twentieth- and twenty-first century literary noir.
Online retail â the bete noir of the new economy â shows signs of taking off, too.
It leads to the cracked cosmic country noir of M Ward's âDead Man ' .
But cool generals should not repine at bad success when they are conscious they have not been wanting in effort noir assiduity.
They were first serialized in b&w in Dark Horse's " Cheval Noir " comic, then published as graphic novels by NBM.
In 1978 she gained film stardom in Derek Jarman's fantasy punk noir ' Jubilee ' singing a buxom ' Rule Britannia ' .
The Pinot Noir grape produces some of the most exotic, sensuous red wines yet is notoriously temperamental.
They first came to prominence some 20 years ago, with their dark noir thriller, Blood Simple.
This was called the cabinet du secret des postes, or more popularly the cabinet noir.
The country south of the Tarn is occupied in great part by the huge plateau of Larzac, which lies between the Causse Noir and the Causse St Affrique, the three forming the south-western termination of the Cevennes.
He delivered a scathing indictment of the Empire at the trial of Pierre Bonaparte for killing Victor Noir in 1870, and took a part in the revolution of the 4th of September, as well as in the subsequent defence of Paris.
They were first serialized in b&w in Dark Horse 's " Cheval Noir " comic, then published as graphic novels by NBM.
In 1978 she gained film stardom in Derek Jarman 's fantasy punk noir ' Jubilee ' singing a buxom ' Rule Britannia '.
Red wines that fit the bill are pinot noir, syrah, and cabernet sauvignon.
There are about 40 different kinds of red grapes widely grown for wine around the world, ranging from the light Gamay and Pinot Noir varieties, to the popular Merlots and Zinfandels and the heavier Syrah/Shiraz.
There are also Blanc de Blanc wines, made entirely of white grapes, Blanc de Noir, made from red grapes and Rose champagne, a dark pink, rich combination of red and white grapes.
Old standards like Aramis, Drakkar Noir, English Leather, Pierre Cardin and Stetson, among many others, are readily available and often sold at small discounts.
If you wish to serve wine, lamb pairs especially well with a pinot noir from Oregon, California, or the Burgundy region of France.
I recently put together a wine tasting to find out the very best Pinot Noir made in the US.
The mission for our wine group was to find the absolute best domestic Pinot Noir of the past few years where price was no object.
Made from a combination of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay grapes, Champagne works well with almost all foods.
Martinelli is one of the Pinot Noir powerhouse winemakers in the Russian River Valley.
Many of the winery's Pinot Noir wines are spectacular, providing a rich ripeness you can only find in California Pinot Noirs.
If you get a chance to try a bottle of Martinelli Pinot Noir, don't hesitate.
Since 1981, the winery has produced quality wines, starting with their 1981 vintage Pinot Noir, and ultimately branching out to include Zinfandel and Chardonnay.
Over the next 20 years the partners worked to develop small production run Pinot Noir wines that had a following of enthusiastic fans.