cineaste - \SIN-ee-ast, SIN-ey-\

cineaste

\SIN-ee-ast, SIN-ey-\ noun 1. any person, especially a director or producer, associated professionally with filmmaking. 2. an aficionado of filmmaking. Quotes …Mr. Jones remains rigidly focused on hammering home the director François Truffaut’s motivation for writing the 1966 book on which this film is based: To lead Hitchcock, then widely considered a mere commercial entertainer, out of the shoals of populism and into the cineaste spotlight. -- Jeannette Catsoulis, "Review: 'Hitchcock/Truffaut' Revisits the Master of Suspense," New York Times, December 1, 2015 Origin Cineaste comes from the French cinéaste. It entered English in the early 1900s.

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offing - \AW-fing, OF-ing\

noun 1. the more distant part of the sea seen from the shore, beyond the anchoring ground. 2. a position at a distance from shore.

Quotes

The offing was barred by a black band of clouds, and the tranquil waterway leading to the outermost ends of the earth flowed sombre under an overcast sky--seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness. -- Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, 1902

Origin

Offing is formed from the adverb off meaning "away from a place" and the suffix -ing. It entered English in the early 1600s.

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