quasidocumentary
English
Etymology
From quasi- + documentary.
Adjective
quasidocumentary (not comparable)
- Somewhat or partially documentary.
- 2008 March 31, Manohla Dargis, “Voice, Eyes and Camera of Katrina Survivors”, in The New York Times[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 November 2022:
- Shot in the familiar quasidocumentary, tag-along style, “Foster Child” at first seems too narrowly focused on Thelma’s personal tribulations but eventually throws open a window onto a world in which the only available remedy to the combination of poverty and religion rests in the bank accounts of childless foreigners.