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Ballardian

Ballardian adjective: of or pertaining to the characteristic fictional milieu of author J. G. Ballard (1930–2009); typically, focusing on surreal violence as inherent in modernity.

Adjective

Ballardian (comparative more Ballardian, superlative most Ballardian)

  1. Of or pertaining to the characteristic fictional milieu of author J. G. Ballard (1930–2009); typically, focusing on surreal violence as inherent in modernity.
    • Yet the sense of evil—which seems to motivate the Christian allusions in Golding, as though evil were what was missing from the Wellsian world picture—is nowhere present in the Ballardian text.1993, Nicholas Ruddick, Ultimate Island: On the Nature of British Science Fiction, Praeger Pub Text
    • Like some Ballardian nightmare from 1986 / Let the satellite navigation system guide us to the Styx2011, “Roof Of Your Car”, in Computers and Blues, performed by The Streets

Examples of Ballardian in a sentence

  • However space age, dislocated and alienated his music became, however Ballardian, surreal and abstract his conceptual concerns, he remained fixed in a northern time and space.2013, Paul Morley, The North: (And Almost Everything In It), Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
  • The very Ballardian violence comes from rogue Salafist jihadists and their far-right counterparts, the Nativists (imagine the EDL with brains); […]2015 September 8, Alex Preston, “Submission by Michel Houellebecq review – satire that’s more subtle than it seems”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

Forms of Ballardian

comparativemore Ballardian
superlativemost Ballardian

Origin of Ballardian

From Ballard + -ian.

Questions about Ballardian

What does Ballardian mean?
Ballardian means of or pertaining to the characteristic fictional milieu of author J. G. Ballard (1930–2009); typically, focusing on surreal violence as inherent in modernity.
How do you use Ballardian in a sentence?
However space age, dislocated and alienated his music became, however Ballardian, surreal and abstract his conceptual concerns, he remained fixed in a northern time and space.
What part of speech is Ballardian?
Ballardian is an adjective.

Words near Ballardian in the dictionary

  1. Ballarat East
  2. Ballarat North
  3. Ballard
  4. Ballard County
  5. Ballardesque
  6. Ballardian
  7. Ballards
  8. Ballardvale
  9. Ballari
  10. Ballarino
  11. ballas

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