noir

Converse of object

• make: Ever wondered how to make boudin noir or air drying your own ham, Hugh can tell you how.
• set: This is film noir set in the sun-drenched streets of Hollywood.

Adjective modifier

• classic: I love the way Wim Wenders used this song on American Friend, his greatest homage to classic film noir.
• American: Welcome to A Question of Sex, a website devoted to the representation of gender in American film noir of the 1940s.
• great: The great noir was about the darkness in your head.
• British: The Small Back Room ( 1949 ) mixes British noir and Expressionism.
• roman: After the war a new kind of detective story ( the roman noir or ' dark novel ' ) did emerge.
• literary: Dr. Lee Horsley works on film noir in relation to twentieth- and twenty-first century literary noir.

Modifies a noun

• thriller: They first came to prominence some 20 years ago, with their dark noir thriller, Blood Simple.
• genre: He filtered the conventions of the noir genre through his own esoteric, art movie approach.
• fiction: The Last Llanelli Train is noir fiction at its best.
• novel: Why did you choose the 21st century Japan as the scene of a noir novel?
• classic: The Last Seduction is stylish, sexy and recalls film noir classics like Double Indemnity.
• movie: Not even a mention, even tho it is #2 on the all time favorite film noir movie list at the IMDB website.

Noun used with modifier

• bete: Online retail â the bete noir of the new economy â shows signs of taking off, too.
• bete: Clearly the language used by architects and those in the planning system is something of a bête noir for the champions of plain speech.
• pieds: From that point many pieds noirs fled to France.
• film: The film noir aspect is evident in the costumes.
• crime: I wrote a script called The Blue Moods of Johnny Slade which was more of a crime film noir piece.
• country: It leads to the cracked cosmic country noir of M Ward's âDead Man ' .