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Adjective
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The prestigious literary award honors books across genres, including fiction, nonfiction, poetry and translation, as well as literary achievement and service.—
Carly Tagen-Dye,
People.com,
21 Mar. 2025 -
The winners are chosen by book critics instead of committees made up of authors or academics, which is how most literary prizes are administered.—
Alexandra Alter,
New York Times,
21 Mar. 2025
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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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Somewhere between bullish and bombastic sits Dana Brown, the antithesis of almost all of his baseball contemporaries.—
Chandler Rome,
The Athletic,
25 Mar. 2025
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And his commanding voice leads the way for the blissful and bombastic blend of music delivered by a range of amazing vocalists throughout the cast.—
Rick Mauch,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
19 Mar. 2025
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Listen to this article An Aurora seventh grader achieved a scholastic twofer last week, winning Denver’s regional science fair and the Colorado state spelling bee in a six-day span.—
Elizabeth Hernandez,
The Denver Post,
13 Mar. 2025
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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
Adjective
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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
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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
Adjective
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Get rid of the sort of florid, baroque way of the writing, which took a year or so.—
Seth Abramovitch,
The Hollywood Reporter,
20 Mar. 2025
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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
Adjective
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This was a stilted, corrupt attempt to juice a friend’s stock, and certainly beneath the office of the presidency.—
Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
12 Mar. 2025
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Overall, the video comes across pretty stilted for most of its run time.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
26 July 2024
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 2 Apr. 2025.
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