Rashomon-styleadj.adv.
/ˈraʃəmɒnˌstʌɪl/, U.S. /ˈræʃəmɑnˌstaɪl/ A. adj.
Resembling the style or content of the film Rashomon, esp. in involving multiple differing perspectives; = Rashomon-like adj.
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1969 Los Angeles Times 3 Apr. iv. 18/1 NBC News will be attempting a ‘Rashomon’-style technique in the third program of its special series ‘White Paper: The Ordeal of the American City’.
1995 Hist. & Theory 34 290 The structure of the essay implies a Rashomon-style relativism.
2004 L. A. King in C. Sansone et al. Sage Handbk. of Methods in Social Psychol. viii. 178 Four different research teams, each of whom analyzed them from its own perspective..engaging in a Rashomon-style exchange over the same data set.
B. adv.
In a manner reminiscent of the film Rashomon.
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1979 Washington Post 15 Mar. b7/1 ‘The Faith Healer’ crawls with shrewdly calculated discrepancies, ambiguities and tiny mysteries that unfold, Rashomon-style, in the successive testimony of its three characters.
1998 S. Rosen & C. Paul Career Renewal iii. 200 That is one reason we have included so many disparate career-change narratives, so many voices, so many points of view, Rashomon style.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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