Andersonian

Adjective

Andersonian (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to Ernest Masson Anderson (1877–1960), Scottish geologist, or his work on the dynamic analysis of faulting.
2. Of or pertaining to Lindsay Anderson (1923–1994), British film and theatre director and film critic.
3. Of or pertaining to Alan Ross Anderson (1925–1973), American logician, or his work in relevance logic and deontic logic.
4. Of or pertaining to Benedict Anderson (1936–2015), Chinese-born Irish political scientist and historian.
5. Of or pertaining to Wes Anderson (born 1969), American film director, producer, and writer.
   • At other points, the film suggests the motive is financial, depicting the Kobayashi clan as staging an industrial coup of sorts, like a quirky Andersonian take on the zaibatsu (a term for the family-controlled business monopolies that dominated Japan until the end of World War II).2018 March 31, Nina Li Coomes, “Unpacking the Fictional Japan of ‘Isle of Dogs’”, in The Atlantic