词汇 | pinteresque |
词源 | Pinteresque. A word honoring British playwright Harold Pinter (b. 1930), who won the Nobel Prize in literature in 2005. Wrote Sara Lyall in the New York Times: “So precise and pared down is his prose, so artful his use of pauses and omissions to invoke discomfort, foreboding and miscommunication that he has his own adjective, Pinteresque, signifying a peculiar kind of atmospheric unease.” |
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