How to Use diaristic in a Sentence
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Is there a kind of diaristic quality about this project?
—New York Times, 7 Apr. 2020
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The film included diaristic footage that the filmmaker took in Politkovskaya’s home over many years.
—Nancy Ramsey, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Mar. 2022
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The film included diaristic footage that the filmmaker took in Ms. Politkovskaya’s home over many years.
—New York Times, 29 Mar. 2022
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With a new name and a rush of listeners from around the world, Ulven released more of her diaristic music in spurts over the next couple of years.
—Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 10 May 2021
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Sleeveless starts with a diaristic account of New York, followed by a vignette in the third person, then a chunk of essays.
—Zoë Hu, The New Republic, 28 Oct. 2019
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Other artists in the show make steady deposits into a diaristic record to track changes over time in the perceiving or perceived self.
—Leah Ollman, latimes.com, 9 Apr. 2018
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Plus, Wave’s gift for small details — an ex’s headband on the floor, an overdue bill in a blue envelope — ground his diaristic songs in the real world.
—Chris Kelly, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2022
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Where most podcasts are taut and quippy, this one is diaristic and slow, as people search for the right words to describe the moments of beauty or sorrow that a song evokes.
—The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2021
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On her latest project, Zahm is going all-in on diaristic songwriting.
—Stephen Daw, Billboard, 17 Oct. 2023
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His journal is reshaped by this change: the diaristic entries of past years start being replaced by copies of notes or letters written to students.
—Benjamin Anastas, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2021
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Undoubtedly the work’s diaristic origins are a part of its appeal.
—James Romm, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2021
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The photographs—spare tabletop still-lifes by the artist Laura Letinsky—break up the diaristic prose like quiet exhalations.
—Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2021
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These scenes have a soapbox didacticism completely at odds with the more diaristic qualities of the movie, the moments marked by the ache of memory.
—A.a. Dowd, Chron, 3 Nov. 2022
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The songs that came from this time in my life were marked by their brutal honesty, unfiltered diaristic confessions and wild wistfulness.
—Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 7 July 2023
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That’s not to say Clairo strayed too far from the highly personal, diaristic and borderline stream-of-consciousness lyrics that first endeared her to her ever-growing fanbase.
—Dan Hyman, chicagotribune.com, 17 July 2019
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What the world first glimpsed in news clips was expanded into this diaristic account, at once humanistic and harrowing.
—Steve Dollar, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
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The collection has a diaristic quality, made concrete by text written on and in between the photographs, in Philomene’s handwriting.
—The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2021
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As the author was a very early Instagram employee and his debut novel, which comes festooned with blurbs from literary tech skeptics, is framed as a diaristic exposé, we are primed for some high-stakes, close-to-the-bone satire.
—Jonathan Russell Clark, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2023
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The camera follows these modern creatures low to the ground, with minimal narration, creating a roving, diaristic dog’s-eye view.
—Kate Knibbs, Wired, 7 Sep. 2020
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Taylor Swift's 10th studio album will return to the diaristic form of her pre-Folklore oeuvre, focusing on 13 midnights scattered throughout her life.
—Ew Staff, EW.com, 30 Sep. 2022
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In 2023, Grant published A Pocketful of Happiness, his diaristic memoir reflecting on his life and career.
—Zoey Lyttle, Peoplemag, 26 Oct. 2023
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Memories and diaristic rambles get captured on a camcorder.
—K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2022
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Playing songwriting games with Bunetta and other artists further relieved the pressure to make diaristic songs, a freedom that sustained her as the pandemic derailed the initial release date for her album in 2020.
—Stephen Kearse, Rolling Stone, 28 Jan. 2022
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The diaristic entries have the simplicity of a show-and-tell, with Murakami’s spare prose offering a material history of his closet.
—Charlene K. Lau, The Atlantic, 16 Nov. 2021
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Throughout the two-thousands, the indie-rock band Bright Eyes recorded diaristic folk music that eventually expanded into pop.
—The New Yorker, 23 July 2021
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The assortment is personal, but obliquely so, a diaristic collage of external rather than internal sources.
—Leah Ollman, latimes.com, 18 Aug. 2017
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In 1990, when Iraq invaded her homeland, the work became an anguished, diaristic record of the horrors unfolding under occupation.
—Roberta Smith, Holland Cotter and Jason Farago, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2017
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There’s real familial intimacy, but not in a diaristic way.
—Marissa R Moss, SPIN, 13 Apr. 2022
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There is also a decidedly diaristic element at play in Zhang’s fictional work.
—Olivia Aylmer, Vanity Fair, 31 July 2017
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Its diaristic approach, with Anderson at times narrating from her childhood and adult diary entries, and fly-on-the-wall feel lend it an intimacy that is usually missing from endeavors like this.
—Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 27 Jan. 2023
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