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Grand Guignol|grɑ̃ giɲɔl|
[Fr. (= Great Punch), the name of a theatre in Paris.]
A dramatic entertainment in which short pieces of a sensational or horrific kind are played successively. Also transf. Hence Grand Guignoˈlesque, Grand ˈGuignolish adjs.; Grand ˈGuignolism.
1908Sat. Rev. 397/2 To act well in the Grand-Guignol postulates..as much art as in any other theatre. Ibid. 398/1 The most typically Grand-Guignolesque thing in the programme. 1920H. B. Irving in M. Level Crises p. iii, M. Level has given literary expression of a high order to the compact horrors of the Grand Guignol. 1922Westm. Gaz. 1 Dec., Violent eccentricity is on the decrease; I have seen Salons of a much more Grand Guignol character than this one. 1923Daily Mail 12 June 8 ‘The Drums of Oude’..is perhaps unequalled as a one-act thriller outside frank Grand Guignolism. 1928Daily Tel. 27 Mar. 6 ‘The Unknown’, a morbid Grand Guignolesque conception rendered tolerable..by the actor's arresting personality. 1958Listener 7 Aug. 211/2 Nor did any Grand Guignolish nonsense spoil his story which was full of genuine horror. 1961A. Wilson Old Men at Zoo iv. 214 Did you see this grand guignol of Leacock's yesterday morning?.. The destruction of the lynx had a morbid effect on the spectators. 1967Times 3 Oct. 11/5 Many more [secrets] perished with the death of the sinister man who managed Stalin's Grand Guignol in the last years. 1969Observer 12 Jan. 26/5 The film winds, with brilliant clarity, through a maze of shadowy emotions to a splendidly Grand-Guignolesque ending. |