Meaning of Havisham-esque | Babel Free

Definitions

Adjective. [C2]

Examples

“Imagine⟳ a party in full swing⟳, with everyone roaring drunk and falling over. My no-work-while-the-sun-shines ethos has meant that the garden is rather grandly Havisham-esque.”

“When she told me she hadn't seen it [the film Grey Gardens (1975)], I launched into an enthusiastic gush about this legendary seventies Maysles brothers documentary about a mother and daughter who lived in Havisham-esque decay in East Hampton.”

“What did Dad think⟳, I wondered, after showing and selling all those painstakingly cleaned, repainted, and remodeled houses every day, when he came home to ours? Was he blind to the Havisham-esque decay? Or did he find⟳ the evidence of time’s passage comforting, a reminder that there would be an end⟳ to the sadness he endured just as there would be an end⟳ to the house, to all the sad things people lived in and lived through?”

“From five floors above, our home seemed to be watching us. I imagined the rooms slipping into a Havisham-esque decay as we failed them, the idea of us that I cherished receding.”

“Detailed, white washed wood with a distressed element and plenty of rococo detailing creates a Havisham-esque feel⟳.”

“With the Havisham[-]esque, eerie interpretation of Mankowitz’s well known photograph of Marianne Faithfull (right) and an indulgent, Borgias royalty type⟳ interpretation of Mankowitz’s Hendrix prints (above), these two visionaries have⟳ made history, a joint art force⟳ to be reckoned with.”

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