Citations:Cumberbatchian

English citations of Cumberbatchian

Adjective: "of, relating to, or characteristic of English actor Benedict Cumberbatch"

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• 2013, "Star Trek’s Best Enemy Gets Reheated", The New Yorker, 20 May 2013:

  What is more worrisome is that this Khan has taken on what might by now be called a Cumberbatchian asexuality, which is at odds with Khan’s magnetic sensual appeal, the source of his power.

• 2013, Shinan Govani, "Tapping Idris Elba and Benedict Cumberbatch, the Titans of TIFF", National Post, 10 August 2013:

  And while Idris — an other-level hunk whose lot on earth seems to be^[sic] emasculate other lads — only has one film here relative to the three of his rival, the Thinking Woman’s Crumpet — some quick celebrity arithmetic tells us that one Mandela (Idris’ high-stakes biopic) is equal to at least three Cumberbatchian projects.

• 2013, Fiona Mountford, "Jack Davenport interview: 'Celebrities on twitter should shut up and go away'", The Telegraph, 10 October 2013:

  Given that his own background, as the privately educated son of actors Maria Aitken and Nigel Davenport and nephew of disgraced Conservative politician Jonathan Aitken, tends to the Cumberbatchian end of the spectrum, what are his views?

• 2014, Karim Sadli, "The Case of the Accidental Superstar", T: The New York Times Style Magazine, 7 March 2014:

  Sherlock-the-character has a fanatic following, with fans who debate every Cumberbatchian movement and every plot twist with the fervor of grassy-knoll conspiracy buffs.

• 2014, Richard Corliss, "Review: The Imitation Game: Dancing With Dr. Strange", Time, 20 November 2014:

  Alan Turing in The Imitation Game may be the actor’s oddest, fullest, most Cumberbatchian character yet.

• 2014, Chris Nashawaty, "The Hobbit: The Battle of The Five Armies", Entertainment Weekly, 25 December 2015:

  When we last left off, our pint-size heroes had just unleashed the Cumberbatchian wrath of the dragon Smaug.

• 2014, Steven Rea, "'The Imitation Game' honors wronged WWII hero Alan Turing", The Philadelphia Inquirer, 27 December 2014:

  (Tyldum found a Cumberbatchian teen, Alex Lawther, for these flashbacks; the young actor is vital to the film's cumulative portrayal.)

• 2015, Zach Dundas, The Great Detective: The Amazing Rise and Immortal Life of Sherlock Holmes, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2015), →ISBN, pages 262-263:

  (Under the name wordstrings, she also writes stories in which the Cumberbatchian Holmes experiences vivid synesthesia and other intense internal effects, some obviously due to diagnosable psychiatric disorders.)

• 2015, Julie Miller, "The Name of Benedict Cumberbatch’s Baby Has Been Unveiled", Vanity Fair, 1 September 2015:

  When might he [Benedict Cumberbatch's son] sprout his first Cumberbatchian reddish hair, recite his first Shakespearean line (our money is riding on 18 months), and develop his first celebrity impression?