| 释义 |
Pinteresque, a.|pɪntəˈrɛsk|
[f. the name Pinter (see below) + -esque.]
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the British playwright Harold Pinter (b. 1930) or his works. Also absol. as n.
1960Times 28 Sept. 15/4 Mr Adrian writes with a cruel mastery of our slipshod, contemporary idioms, and the long drunken coda to his play is a comic achievement none the less impressive for its Pinteresque overtones. 1965Punch 6 Oct. 507/1 The sort of everyday absurdity, in speech or action, that can now be most easily described as ‘Pinteresque’. 1969Observer 8 June 26/3 Jonathan..was an excellently conceived character: a psychiatric worker.., rather prissy, sweetly reasonable on the surface but with a constant hint of query—queer malice showing through... This was a potentially Pinteresque situation. 1970Guardian 7 Aug. 8/4 The Pinteresque as comedy. 1974Listener 13 June 754/1 Suddenly everyone..talked like overheard conversations on buses. They invented a word for it—Pinteresque.
So also Pinterian |pɪnˈtɪərɪən| a., characteristic of Pinter or his works; ˈPinterish [-ish1] a., characteristic or suggestive of Pinter or his works; hence ˈPinterishness; ˈPinterism, Pinterish style or an instance of this.
1960Times 7 Oct. 4/7 Miss Quayle as a Pinterish woman on top of a bus. 1963Observer 13 Oct. 23/3 Dave Freeman's script was ingeniously Pinterish. 1967Listener 1 June 727/1 The Dick Emery Show..contained a sketch by Harold Pinter... The sketch..was a small master⁓piece, quintessentially Pinterian. Two aging women have tea together, and the conversation..is about a friend who used to go to the butcher's regularly on Wednesdays but now, since she's moved, doesn't go quite so much. 1970Guardian 16 Dec. 8/1 Even on a straightforward social level, I am told, events assume a Pinteresque flavour when the Pinters arrive. What is this pervasive Pinterishness? 1971Ibid. 24 Sept. 10/2 A precisely structured script, only very occasionally dropping into those meaningless meanings now known as Pinterisms. 1975Broadcast 3 Nov. 14/3 Old Times by Harold Pinter..seems to epitomize ‘Pinterism’—relaxed circumambient dialogue with lots of significant spaces between the words. |