How to Use essayistic in a Sentence

essayistic

adjective

• There are moments in this novel that hint at Iweala’s freer, more essayistic voice.
  — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2018
• Even though the book breaks narrative format for essayistic asides.
  — Ew Staff, EW.com, 23 Sep. 2020
• Novak’s essayistic style leaves room for the kind of ambivalent truths that never resolve into a call to action.
  — New York Times, 12 Oct. 2021
• This essayistic novel is Akhtar’s answer to that question.
  — Ron Charles critic, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2020
• But there’s an essayistic quality to this story, which lobs around these questions of storytelling.
  — Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 4 July 2022
• That said, this essayistic approach frees up Fitzgerald to tell long stories, unhampered by the demands of chronology.
  — Stuart Miller, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2022
• Curtis’s book is much less essayistic, and more traditional.
  — Jo Livingstone, The New Republic, 21 Jan. 2022
• The book seems to be addressing typical readers of essayistic nonfiction like myself: People who have time, and at least some money, to spend preparing for an apocalypse.
  — Rebecca Stoner, Outside Online, 25 Apr. 2020
• The novel succeeds in interweaving an essayistic impulse with the vulnerabilities attendant on any dark night of the soul.
  — The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
• For Adorno, as for Walter Benjamin, one of the essayists Adorno most admired, essays about people betray the true object of essayistic criticism: the private individual.
  — Merve Emre, The New York Review of Books, 19 Oct. 2022
• Much of Unread rolls out in gentle fashion — Stedman’s narration is writerly, essayistic — guiding listeners through the journey and its many moving parts with an elegiac thoughtfulness.
  — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 14 July 2021
• It’s deeply reported and essayistic, a nearly inescapable combination when the reporter in question is also an eyewitness.
  — Longreads, 20 Dec. 2022
• Major Labels is an essayistic medley rather than a straight chronological history, with a generous helping of memoir included along the way.
  — Jack Hamilton, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2021
• Motherhood reads much more like a journal, in which mundane events—a conversation, an outing, an argument—mingle with essayistic explorations.
  — Adam Kirsch, The Atlantic, 13 May 2018
• Polley leans into the almost surreal qualities of Toews’s novel, resisting the urge to tidy up the meandering, essayistic nature of these conversations.
  — Jennifer Wilson, The New Republic, 19 Dec. 2022
• That acceptance becomes a cause for celebration, a painful reckoning, and a real meditation on what literary and literal gumption can create and sustain in essayistic forms.
  — Longreads, 21 Dec. 2017
• Gathering information from online postings by victims and soliciting covert filming by her collaborators in China, Wang puts together an essayistic and emotional film that focuses on the grief of survivors and the trauma of caregivers.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2021
• Holleran’s novels have become increasingly essayistic over time.
  — Garth Greenwell, The New Yorker, 6 June 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024