Lynchian

//ˈlɪntʃiːən//

Synonyms for "lynchian"

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Finnish

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  • lynchiläinen adj (of or pertaining to David Lynch)

Polish

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  • Lynczowski adj (of or pertaining to David Lynch)

Russian

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  • линчевский adj (of or pertaining to David Lynch)

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An academic definition of Lynchian might be that “the term refers to a particular kind of irony where the very macabre and the very mundane combine in such a way as to reveal the former's perpetual containment within the latter.” […] Jeffrey Dahmer, with his victim’s various anatomies neatly separated and stored in his fridge alongside his chocolate milk and Shedd Spread, was thoroughgoingly Lynchian. […] I've noted since 1986 (when Blue Velvet was released) that a good 65 percent of the people in metropolitan bus terminals between the hours of midnight and 6 A.M. tend to qualify as Lynchian figures-grotesque, enfeebled, flamboyantly unappealing, freighted with a woe out of all proportion to evident circumstances.

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My relationship towards tulips is inherently Lynchian. I think they are disgusting. Just imagine. Aren't these some kind of, how do you call it, vagina dentata, dental vaginas threatening to swallow you?

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Lynchian sound practice is even more specialised. A kind of aural uncanny is produced, with classic pop ballads occurring in unexpected places and an unlocatable industrial hum subsisting with—or even muffling—dialogue.

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This is not the first time, however, that the Trump Presidency has put me in mind of the Lynchian world. The primal terror of Lynch’s films is an existential one, stemming from the ever-present possibility of things falling apart […] the volatility of the self and of reality. For Lynch, disruption is generative: trauma, the recurring subject of his films, can rupture the fabric of reality.

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