Godard

[ goh-dahrd, -dahr; French gaw-dar ]

noun

1. Ben·ja·min Louis Paul [bah, n, -zh, a, -, man, lwee pawl], 1849–95, French violinist and composer.
2. Jean-Luc [zhah, n, -, lyk], 1930–2022, French filmmaker.

Godard

/ ɡɔdar /

noun

1. GodardJean-Luc1930MFrenchFILMS AND TV: directorWRITING: writer Jean-Luc (ʒɑ̃lyk). born 1930, French film director and writer associated with the New Wave of the 1960s. His works include À bout de souffle (1960), Weekend (1967), Sauve qui peut (1980), Nouvelle Vague (1990), and Éloge de l'amour (2003)

Example Sentences

As fellow master Jean-Luc Godard might say, “All you need for a movie is a girl and a gun.”

From The Daily Beast

But visually when we did it, in black and white, it looks so French to me—like Band of Outsiders or some Godard movie.

From The Daily Beast

Truffaut and Godard edited a magazine largely devoted to praising the works of Hawks and Hitchcock, for instance.

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The Academy's honorary Oscar for anti-Semitic French director Jean-Luc Godard is more than a kerfuffle—it's an outrage.

From The Daily Beast

Some real beings obscured my imagined ones—Colonel Godard and his nephew could not keep pace with a hero of my disposition.

From Project Gutenberg

There is a matter of business from the Public documents committee, on which we should like to hear from Mr. Godard.

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Godard is perhaps greater in small things than he is in large.

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Godard, who was late, had to take his place in the corner, where the faint glimmer of the taller candles scarcely reached him.

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The Citoyen Godard looked wildly at the speaker, and then drew the young woman aside.

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