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also belle-lettristic
as in literary
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Adjective
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Les Cahiers Secrets Eau de Parfum comes from the diaries of Anaïs Nin and her literary community in 1930s Paris.—
Marci Robin,
Allure,
27 Feb. 2025 -
McGivern has read the Six of Crows series 10 times in the past six years and credits much of her literary passion to it.—
Ashlyn Robinette,
People.com,
25 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The music is stark, declamatory, and ironic in its use of gentler major-key harmonies for some of the darkest lines.—
Alex Ross,
The New Yorker,
3 Feb. 2025
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Such would-be scientific treatises in fact functioned more like manifestos, and decisively influenced Eliot and Ezra Pound’s generation to favor a poetics of the objective sensuous image over one of the dramatic declamatory mood.—
Benjamin Kunkel,
The New Yorker,
9 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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O’Brien has a very specific brand of humor that mixes the bombastic and the surreal with a biting sharpness and a healthy dose of self depreciation.—
Rosa Escandon,
Forbes,
3 Mar. 2025
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Even in recognizing his affinity for James Cagney, whose button-nose and short stature contrasted against his bombastic presence, Hackman is registering the type of Hollywood actor that created a space for themselves rather than worked to fit any mold.—
Harrison Richlin,
IndieWire,
1 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Sanders won the 2024 Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award, which is given to the nation’s top quarterback who best exemplifies character, scholastic and athletic achievement.—
Ryan Canfield,
Fox News,
19 Dec. 2024
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Golden Triangle administers the scholarships in cooperation with Mount Dora Community Trust. Award considerations include scholastic ability, responsibility toward education, financial need and includes a special emphasis on community service.—
Orlando Sentinel Staff,
Orlando Sentinel,
13 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Still, this adaptation of an O. Henry story tilts all its sympathies toward the outlaw hero the Cisco Kid (Warner Baxter, in a Best Actor–winning role) and away from the pompous white soldier charged with tracking him down.—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
3 Mar. 2025
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And every scene and song featuring the hilarious Eric Anderson as the pompous and preening Union Gen. George B. McClellan is a comic gem.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
3 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Still, there’s great friction in this story line, because Bridger and Young’s dialogue is simultaneously so florid and pointed, and because the actors playing the Mormon baddies really gnaw on their villainy.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
9 Jan. 2025
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But sentimentality suits Flanagan, whose florid writing style is well matched by the high-concept ideas explored here.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
1 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Not for him the literary circles of London or the stilted dinner parties of Brahmin Boston.—
Maggie Doherty,
The New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2025
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Designed by architect Antony Gibbons as a whimsical family escape for these Airbnb hosts, this unique, stilted, stand-alone cabin has massive windows that look out into the Catskill Mountains and to the on-site pond.—
Megan Michelson,
Outside Online,
18 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Boots in the boudoir Spring/summer 2025 is going to be full of flowery feminine prints and floaty blouses and skirts if the Paris runway shows that end Tuesday are anything to go by.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune Europe,
1 Oct. 2024
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The album had a flowery psychedelic cover and was widely advertised in New York and California.—
James R. Hagerty,
WSJ,
27 Jan. 2023
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“Belletristic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/belletristic. Accessed 10 Mar. 2025.
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