How to Use noir in a Sentence

noir

1 of 2 noun

• Like any good noir, the vehicle of the plot is the murders and the mystery.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 May 2022
• True to noir form, it’s pumped up on twists, weirdos and bloodshed.
  — Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2024
• This is a blend of grenache noir and syrah, aged in concrete vats for six months.
  — Dave McIntyre, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2023
• The song was thrilling yet unnerving, an heir to 50 Cent’s street noir.
  — August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2023
• Some of the lingo in the tale, a comic noir set mostly in the 1940s, comes directly from the books and movies of that era.
  — Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News, 17 May 2022
• The look, like previous videos Stark's team made with Kwofi, is very film-noir.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 4 June 2020
• Like all great noir, Desna has to face both the mistakes of her past and come to terms with the price of chasing power.
  — Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 11 Nov. 2021
• And then it was gone, a victim of too many things too noir to go into right now.
  — Beth Segal, cleveland, 5 Dec. 2019
• Himes’s revival in recent years has come on the strength of his noir crime fiction.
  — Adam Bradley, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2023
• This French noir is available to rent on Amazon Prime Video.
  — Sheena Scott, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2021
• It’s definitely got the noir aspect to it thanks to the weather.
  — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Feb. 2024
• The result is a noir that also has a bitter sense of humor.
  — Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2021
• It’s all draped in an evocative sepia tone, more home-carved and burnished than late-night noir.
  — Noah Shachtman, Rolling Stone, 18 Mar. 2023
• The 10-track record pairs Conway’s rubbery flow with Wun Two’s dark and woozy beats, fit for a lo-fi, cult noir flick.
  — Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 22 Dec. 2023
• Yet under all that slick, rapid-fire mayhem, there’s also a touch of the noir — call it Yule Noir.
  — Pat Padua, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2022
• But, as in many a noir, the women provided much of the spectacle.
  — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 14 July 2023
• This is outback noir — oblique, secretive and as hard-boiled as the ground is hard-baked — and Sen wears it well.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 23 Feb. 2023
• Benson has crafted a noir film inside the pages of a book and the cast of characters in the present and past come vividly to life.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2019
• This is perhaps Shroff’s best recent role since the Tamil cult neo-noir Aaranya Kandam (2011).
  — Devarsi Ghosh, Quartz India, 26 Dec. 2019
• The event was a party for the cowboy noir thriller Red Rock West so Tupac showed up in his best wild west attire.
  — Rebecca Aizin, Peoplemag, 29 Aug. 2023
• At times, the images on screen resembled a noir crime drama.
  — Stephen Battaglio, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Nov. 2023
• The atmosphere is strictly ice-cool tech noir, like something out of a Nine Inch Nails video.
  — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 Feb. 2024
• Those wishing to secure their own flour or semolina must resort to the marché noir – the black market.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Sep. 2023
• Such is the premise of this noir, starring William H. Macy as the title character.
  — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2021
• That nearly-noir brunette hair color she was seen with just this past weekend at the 2020 Oscars?
  — Kaleigh Fasanella, Allure, 11 Feb. 2020
• Sure, it’s supposed to be pulpy noir, but that doesn’t mean things have to be this incoherent.
  — Vulture, 2 May 2022
• Jazz trumpet struts added a cool noir quality to the soundscapes, and mandolin sprints brought a fiery flair.
  — Piet Levy, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Sep. 2019
• And as Ron and Madison start seeing each other, with her husband still in the way, the film becomes a kind of noir with corkscrew twists.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 5 Sep. 2023
• These are the questions at the heart of noir, of every literature of alienation.
  — David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023
• Pinot noir is spiced with about 15 percent gamay to yield a light-bodied red that sings with cherry, blackberry and spice, lingering through a long finish.
  — Dave McIntyre, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2024

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noir

2 of 2 adjective

• The scene, rendered in black-and-white, has a noir vibe.
  — Washington Post, 30 July 2021
• Like Blaxploitation, the line as to what is and isn’t noir is blurred.
  — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Nov. 2022
• During the day, the anthracite turns them a dark gray to contrast against the noir backdrop.
  — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 23 Mar. 2021
• How, then, can the L.A. of unrelieved light be also the L.A. of noir film and fiction?
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2022
• How did noir mix and mingle with the Nineties in this narrative?
  — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 22 June 2021
• As has often been written, noir is not quite a genre, a mood or a style.
  — Ben Kenigsberg, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2021
• But Hurt’s career picked up steam with 1981’s neo-noir, Body Heat.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Mar. 2022
• The result was a fresh take on classic noir themes set in a seedy, bygone L.A.
  — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 27 Apr. 2021
• The look, like previous videos Stark's team made with Kwofi, is very film-noir.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 4 June 2020
• Players assume the role of No Man, a tall thin man who sports the standard garb of a noir hero: a trench coat and a hat.
  — Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2021
• The lyrics bristle with local slang, and the music videos are bathed in the noir glow of Motor City back streets and strip malls.
  — New York Times, 14 Mar. 2022
• The hillside is planted in Pinot noir and chardonnay grapes.
  — oregonlive, 30 Sep. 2022
• The script is full of twists, and Mr. Bolden’s performance is as taut as that of a film-noir screen actor.
  — Terry Teachout, WSJ, 1 July 2021
• Life could feel as dramatic as a noir film set all of a sudden.
  — Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 27 Mar. 2022
• The aesthetic is pitch-perfect for the noir-y tale Spielberg is telling.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 14 June 2022
• This gives the movie a vaguely noir look, which adds to its sustained mood of mild, or not-so-mild, menace.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 1 June 2022
• The first Birdland was a hardcore noir night club, of a kind now mostly vanished.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2021
• Dion Vineyard is best known for: Pinot noir, sparkling wines and Choco, the little brown winery dog.
  — Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 27 Dec. 2021
• See where Joel and Ethan Coen got their start in a clever riff on noir tropes — double crosses!
  — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 1 Feb. 2021
• Mike Davis, a city historian, once said that L.A. is the city of sunshine and noir, of dreams fulfilled and crushed to dust.
  — Steph Cha, Travel + Leisure, 26 Feb. 2022
• The noir backdrop is the perfect platform for the rose gold flourishes which offer a stealth dose of flash.
  — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 1 Sep. 2022
• Elisabeth, around whom the plot revolves, has ghosts in her past (this is noir, after all).
  — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Jan. 2021
• Not only that, but as with noir, the mashups reverberate both ways.
  — David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2022
• The art in turn looks realistic and grounded, albeit with a noir/thriller bent.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 31 Mar. 2021
• Pinot noir and chardonnay made from grape clusters and nothing else.
  — Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 25 Oct. 2021
• Like the femme fatale portrayed in that song, or indeed, in many noir films, the Monica in this film aims to be a survivor.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 11 Nov. 2022
• Despite the Levys’ film-noir management style, much good music was made there.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2021
• All of this is surely fair game for fresh takes just as much as, say, the hospital drama, the legal thriller or the noir mystery.
  — Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2020
• Take 7+ years of Saturn observations by the Cassini spacecraft, stitch a whole lot of them together into short, film-noir-like segments, and add a Beethoven soundtrack.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 23 May 2012
• Barton Fink is an experience in noir, mystery, and dark comedy.
  — Tim Moffatt, EW.com, 16 Dec. 2022

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