英语词汇pinteresque的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

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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