Kurtzian
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Kurtz + -ian, after the fictional character Kurtz in the novel Heart of Darkness.
Adjective
[edit]Kurtzian (comparative more Kurtzian, superlative most Kurtzian)
- Megalomaniac; brutal, tyrannical.
- 2015 January 22, Peter Bradshaw, “Ex Machina review – an elegant but limited artificial intelligence thriller”, in The Guardian[1], →ISSN:
- […] 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.