Definition of Hitchcockian in English:
Hitchcockian
adjective ˌhɪtʃˈkɒkɪənˌhɪtʃˈkɑkiən
Resembling or characteristic of the style of the English film director Sir Alfred Hitchcock, especially through the use of tension and suspense.
a Hitchcockian crime thriller
Example sentencesExamples
- What they couldn't see, but we could, was that there were only two screws left out of six holding the thing together—very Hitchcockian.
- I didn't expect what I heard a little later, either, and think I might have preferred the silence or even a Hitchcockian cacophony of birds.
- This film matched elegant Hitchcockian suspense with a playful appreciation of the way love can make fools and liars of us all.
- A black and white film, it forwent many of the traditional Hitchcockian devices of suspense.
- An almost Hitchcockian feel of implacable fate that filigrees the film must have given exhibitors second thoughts, and it's mostly known only to dedicated cinephiles.
- The opening scenes look very Hitchcockian: the film has a quite brilliant moment of suspense as the wife's trusty dog realises there is something wrong and, barking frenziedly, jumps aboard the rowing boat.
- This sadistic Hitchcockian mystery is not without its flaws.
- That film was downright Hitchcockian in its dragging of an ordinary woman into extraordinary circumstances.
Definition of Hitchcockian in US English:
Hitchcockian
adjectiveˌhiCHˈkäkēənˌhɪtʃˈkɑkiən
Resembling or characteristic of the style of the English film director Sir Alfred Hitchcock, especially through the use of tension and suspense.
a Hitchcockian crime thriller
Example sentencesExamples
- An almost Hitchcockian feel of implacable fate that filigrees the film must have given exhibitors second thoughts, and it's mostly known only to dedicated cinephiles.
- A black and white film, it forwent many of the traditional Hitchcockian devices of suspense.
- I didn't expect what I heard a little later, either, and think I might have preferred the silence or even a Hitchcockian cacophony of birds.
- This sadistic Hitchcockian mystery is not without its flaws.
- This film matched elegant Hitchcockian suspense with a playful appreciation of the way love can make fools and liars of us all.
- What they couldn't see, but we could, was that there were only two screws left out of six holding the thing together—very Hitchcockian.
- That film was downright Hitchcockian in its dragging of an ordinary woman into extraordinary circumstances.
- The opening scenes look very Hitchcockian: the film has a quite brilliant moment of suspense as the wife's trusty dog realises there is something wrong and, barking frenziedly, jumps aboard the rowing boat.