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- adjective Of or pertaining to Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) or his writings, noted for their
bleak outlook andminimalism .
Etymologies
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Examples
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They seem to have slipped from the busy melee of Las Vegas into a kind of Beckettian empty space.
ajc.com - News 2009
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"Beckettian" clowns -- rappers to be exact -- to a lonely street corner in the Bronx where they wait for a record producer.
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Sometimes the diversions rise to Beckettian levels of absurdity and moral provocation.
Review of "On the Nickel," a mystery by John Shannon Art Taylor 2010
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Imagination Dead Imagine is the title of one of his late pieces, but the point is that the Beckettian imagination continued lively to the very end.
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Sometimes the diversions rise to Beckettian levels of absurdity and moral provocation.
Review of "On the Nickel," a mystery by John Shannon Art Taylor 2010
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I offer this Beckettian dialectic (from the landmark sports-fan buddy play, "Waiting for Slow-Mo") as a kind of shorthand to understanding Patrick McDonough's latest exhibition at Flashpoint.
Art review: 'Patrick McDonough: reck room' at Flashpoint Jessica Dawson 2010
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Imagination Dead Imagine is the title of one of his late pieces, but the point is that the Beckettian imagination continued lively to the very end.
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For Williams, his 'ur' was the Theatre of the Absurd the wild Beckettian landscape of the mind's greatest fears and his lifelong anxieties about his sister, whom he always considered his Platonic 'other half.'
George Heymont: This Is Your Life George Heymont 2012
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"You laughed in a Beckettian way because you see our relationship as a barren wasteland," she retorted.
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Really, it all comes down to that Beckettian fortune cookie: try again, fail again, fail better.
Broken resolutions can be good for you | Hephzibah Anderson 2011
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