Words similar to noir

Example sentences for: noir

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Set in Cuba during the Spanish-American war, the novel is part Western (the main character, Ben Tyler, is an Arizona cowboy) and part noir (he's in on an arms-smuggling scam gone bad).
2) Gibson is too chipper for a noir hero: "[H]e's like a chipmunk with a Smith & Wesson" (Stephen Hunter, the Washington Post ). Slate 's David Edelstein calls it "inflated Pocket Books pulp."
Ten wineries propose tastings and sales of their not undrinkable dry whites and dry reds along with some more refined wines from the nobler European varieties: Pinot Noir, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Gewürztraminer, and Riesling.
That's a trick question, because her best performance, in Basic Instinct (1992), was essentially a comic turn--a lusty, glittery-eyed sendup of film noir femmes fatales . Here she starts promisingly, looking odd and imposing in her caftans, childishly impervious to the absurdity of her demands.
Rafelson's take on a Miami family's lust, rage, and greed--"the usual trio of forties- noir emotions"--is "too straight, almost TV movieish" (Denby).