Words similar to noir

Example sentences for: noir

How can you use “noir” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

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).
But the movie is still a delight, a fascinatingly strange and chaotic ballet set to familiar noir motifs.
Some critics are less generous and note a heavy reliance on melodrama and film noir tropes; the Daily News ' Fintan O'Toole writes that the play is no "lost masterpiece."
Schlöndorff, says the New York Times ' Stephen Holden, wants to "out-noir every other film noir."
Nineteen-fifties noir diva Gloria Graham, an actress with a little-girl voice and bad-girl smarts, gave her quips an irresistible countercultural edge.