belletristic

adjective

variants also belle-lettristic
Definition of belletristicnext
as in literary

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  1. literary
  2. declamatory
  3. bombastic
  4. scholastic
  5. pompous
  6. florid
  7. stilted
  8. flowery
Adjective
  • Besides, learning literary discrimination requires exposure to a range of materials.
    Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
  • These bloody political, erotic, and literary entanglements are the subject of my article for this week’s issue.
    Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2025
Definition of literary
Adjective
  • 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
  • But there’s nothing boring in Coppola’s realization of this culminating drama, and none in Driver’s declamatory enthusiasm.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2024
Definition of declamatory
Adjective
  • Ball is the middle child of LaVar Ball, the former professional football player who made waves in the 2010s through the bombastic promotion of his sons’ basketball careers.
    Matthew Strauss, Pitchfork, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Charlie Kirk: The bombastic podcaster and Turning Point USA founder played a role in Trump’s get-out-the-vote efforts, and he’s reportedly helped screen Trump administration job candidates for loyalty.
    Joe Walsh, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
Definition of bombastic
Adjective
  • Sanders won the 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, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Starting this scholastic year, the program is donating 175,000 euros to institutions located in the U.S. and U.K. Plans are afoot to expand globally in the future.
    Jennifer Weil, WWD, 18 Oct. 2024
Definition of scholastic
Adjective
  • The disapproval is exemplified by a pompous New Yorker interviewed on the street by young fans.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Bonneville, as the ineffectually pompous Mr. Brown, always gives the impression of having a whale of a time.
    Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 4 Nov. 2024
Definition of pompous
Adjective
  • But sentimentality suits Flanagan, whose florid writing style is well matched by the high-concept ideas explored here.
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 1 Jan. 2025
  • The reminiscence, complete with florid flashbacks, will become important later, but the movie’s narrative engine doesn’t start humming until Martha returns to her gorgeous Manhattan apartment and the two women try to resume their old rapport.
    Tim Grierson, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024
Definition of florid
Adjective
  • Mufasa opens in the stilted aftermath of the 2019 movie (also written by Nathanson).
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Dec. 2024
  • The rooms The camp has just nine tents branching off a stilted wooden walkway with plenty of space in between.
    Chris Schalkx, AFAR Media, 12 Dec. 2024
Definition of stilted
Adjective
  • 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
  • The album had a flowery psychedelic cover and was widely advertised in New York and California.
    James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 27 Jan. 2023
Definition of flowery
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