How to Use diaristic in a Sentence

diaristic

adjective

• Is there a kind of diaristic quality about this project?
  — New York Times, 7 Apr. 2020
• The film included diaristic footage that the filmmaker took in Politkovskaya’s home over many years.
  — Nancy Ramsey, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Mar. 2022
• The film included diaristic footage that the filmmaker took in Ms. Politkovskaya’s home over many years.
  — New York Times, 29 Mar. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• On her latest project, Zahm is going all-in on diaristic songwriting.
  — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 17 Oct. 2023
• 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
• Undoubtedly the work’s diaristic origins are a part of its appeal.
  — James Romm, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• In 2023, Grant published A Pocketful of Happiness, his diaristic memoir reflecting on his life and career.
  — Zoey Lyttle, Peoplemag, 26 Oct. 2023
• Memories and diaristic rambles get captured on a camcorder.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The assortment is personal, but obliquely so, a diaristic collage of external rather than internal sources.
  — Leah Ollman, latimes.com, 18 Aug. 2017
• 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
• There’s real familial intimacy, but not in a diaristic way.
  — Marissa R Moss, SPIN, 13 Apr. 2022
• There is also a decidedly diaristic element at play in Zhang’s fictional work.
  — Olivia Aylmer, Vanity Fair, 31 July 2017
• 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

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024