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Recent Examples of belletrist
The philologists, unlike the belletrists, were methodical and systematic, and given to expounding those methods and systems in lengthy treatises.
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Evan Kindley, The New York Review of Books, 16 Feb. 2023
Harrison is almost the textbook example of a belletrist—someone who writes essays more for their aesthetic effect than anything else.
—Bill Heavey, WSJ, 16 Sep. 2022
Locke the glossy belletrist gave way to Locke the fellow-traveller, Locke the savvy champion of proletarian realism.
—Tobi Haslett, The New Yorker, 11 May 2018
Evan Kindley, The New York Review of Books, 16 Feb. 2023
Harrison is almost the textbook example of a belletrist—someone who writes essays more for their aesthetic effect than anything else.
—Bill Heavey, WSJ, 16 Sep. 2022
Locke the glossy belletrist gave way to Locke the fellow-traveller, Locke the savvy champion of proletarian realism.
—Tobi Haslett, The New Yorker, 11 May 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for belletrist
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That this writer had to mention the Vegas odds as a way to balance these teams is so lazy.Tim Graham, The Athletic, 13 Jan. 2025
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The Marshall Project staff writers Jamiles Lartey and Shannon Heffernan contributed to this report.Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2025
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The book was first published anonymously, and its authorship is consequently uncertain, though usually attributed to a minor poet and litterateur named Wu Cheng’en.Washington Post, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2021
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Even his name, not to mention his author photo, had an aura of toughness more suggestive of a prizefighter than a litterateur.Geoffrey O’Brien, The New York Review of Books, 18 Apr. 2019
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Longtime Courier Journal columnist Bob Hill has always been a wordsmith but wasn't always a writer.Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 18 Dec. 2024
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Perry knew that wordsmith songwriters needed hooks as well.David Browne, Rolling Stone, 26 Dec. 2024
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Hathaway regularly collaborates with stylist Erin Walsh.Julia Teti, WWD, 9 Jan. 2025
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Fuzzy Textured Alpaca Blend Crewneck Sweater $129 $90 at Nordstrom This sweater has a medium to heavy weight, according to Nordstrom’s stylists, so it’s made to keep you super warm — especially when layered with a long coat, snug leggings, and knee-high boots.Kelsey Glennon, Travel + Leisure, 9 Jan. 2025
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Topics include: chicken breeds, raising chicks, designing coops and pens, and chicken health and nutrition.Joe Rassel, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2025
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Sheltered between the 4-meter high, 2.5-meter wide walls and the 60-meter-deep gorges, people built dugout houses, then later aboveground stone ones, along with stone animal pens and other buildings.Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 9 Jan. 2025
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Hemingway, according to literary biographer Scott Donaldson, quickly become the target of a confidence-bruising onslaught designed to humble him and mold him into a subservient, obedient journalist.Emily Zarevich, JSTOR Daily, 6 Jan. 2025
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Despite being a revered leader of the civil rights movement, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was actually conflict avoidant, says biographer Jonathan Eig.Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 3 Jan. 2025
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Without spoiling too much, the movie builds to a cartoonish finale worthy of Looney Tunes auteur Frank Tashlin, with a public execution witnessed by the masses that wears its rhetoric on its sleeve.Eric Kohn, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Jan. 2025
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More importantly, perhaps, is the revelation that 36-year-old director Brady Corbet is that most worshipped kind of filmmaker, an auteur.Tom Gliatto, People.com, 3 Jan. 2025
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Try your hand at drawing a model, whether your a pro or a scribbler.Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 1 July 2024
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We should be concerned not just for our personal pocketbooks but for the state of our art—and the current moment calls for dreamers, strummers, and scribblers to be unusually thoughtful, tactical, and shrewd.Sean Michaels, The New Yorker, 21 June 2023
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“Belletrist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/belletrist. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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