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Kurtzian
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English
Etymology
From en Kurtz -ian, after the fictional character Kurtz (Heart of Darkness) Kurtz in the novel Heart of Darkness.
Adjective
Megalomaniac; brutal, tyrannical.
en-GB Peter Bradshaw Ex Machina review – an elegant but limited artificial intelligence thriller The Guardian 2015-01-22 https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/jan/22/ex-machina-review 0261-3077 imagine Caleb’s excitement and fear when he wins an in-house competition to spend a week alone with the firm’s reclusive, scarily Kurtzian founder, Nathan (bullishly played by Oscar Isaac), in his gigantic fortress of solitude on a private island—it looks like the one where they built Jurassic Park.
en eponyms terms derived from fiction