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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
Noun
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Contributing Writer Nola Taylor Tillman is a contributing writer for Space.com.—
Nola Taylor Tillman,
Space.com,
17 Feb. 2025
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Daniel Nugent-Bowman is a staff writer who covers the Edmonton Oilers for The Athletic.—
Daniel Nugent-Bowman,
The Athletic,
17 Feb. 2025
Noun
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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
Noun
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Back then, people fought for sport and who was the best wordsmith.—
Matthew Bremner,
Rolling Stone,
5 Jan. 2025
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Though the mainstream country's most successful wordsmith of the past decade, Gorley sang and played the keyboard along with Malone's hits.—
Marcus K. Dowling,
The Tennessean,
18 June 2024
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The actor’s stylist, Taylor McNeill, paired the GapStudio look with pointy-toe black leather boots and Cartier jewelry.—
Hannah Jackson,
Vogue,
26 Feb. 2025
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Kylie Jenner is reportedly paying for the funeral and associated costs, per TMZ, and had been working with the young stylist since 2019.—
Elizabeth Logan,
Glamour,
25 Feb. 2025
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Many of the artists work with watercolors, like Proctor, who combines the medium with pen, and some artists create their images digitally.—
Jessie Schiewe,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Feb. 2025
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One of the men flopped to the ground, faking a seizure to distract the employees, while another went to the bulldogs' pen, pulled the top off and grabbed the only two English bulldog puppies in the store, Rose said.—
Dennis Romero,
NBC News,
25 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Listen to this article Doris Kearns Goodwin, the famous historian and biographer of Abraham Lincoln, has said that only Jesus has been written about more than our 16th president over the past 165 years.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Feb. 2025
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In this slim volume of essays, Marshall, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, turns inward, reflecting on her discovery of old personal paraphernalia, including letters and photographs.—
The New Yorker,
The New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2025
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His leadership might well have elevated those sections, but to stock the main competition (and new Encounters competitive section) with the same rule-bending auteurs was to rob Berlin of its most vital dimension: a populist connection with German locals.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
24 Feb. 2025
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Even for South Korea’s uniquely genre-agnostic top auteurs, the career of Min Kyu-dong has been relentlessly diverse and adventurous.—
Kevin Cassidy,
The Hollywood Reporter,
16 Feb. 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 3 Mar. 2025.
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