How to Use diaristic in a Sentence
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The film included diaristic footage that the filmmaker took in Politkovskaya’s home over many years.
—Nancy Ramsey, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Mar. 2022
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On her latest project, Zahm is going all-in on diaristic songwriting.
—Stephen Daw, Billboard, 17 Oct. 2023
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Other artists in the show make steady deposits into a diaristic record to track changes over time in the perceiving or perceived self.
—Leah Ollman, latimes.com, 9 Apr. 2018
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Undoubtedly the work’s diaristic origins are a part of its appeal.
—James Romm, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2021
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The songs that came from this time in my life were marked by their brutal honesty, unfiltered diaristic confessions and wild wistfulness.
—Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 7 July 2023
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With a new name and a rush of listeners from around the world, Ulven released more of her diaristic music in spurts over the next couple of years.
—Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 10 May 2021
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According to Vogue, Rose Gray’s new album sounds like diaristic entries of her past year.
—Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 25 Dec. 2024
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Where most podcasts are taut and quippy, this one is diaristic and slow, as people search for the right words to describe the moments of beauty or sorrow that a song evokes.
—The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2021
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Sleeveless starts with a diaristic account of New York, followed by a vignette in the third person, then a chunk of essays.
—Zoë Hu, The New Republic, 28 Oct. 2019
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Plus, Wave’s gift for small details — an ex’s headband on the floor, an overdue bill in a blue envelope — ground his diaristic songs in the real world.
—Chris Kelly, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2022
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What the world first glimpsed in news clips was expanded into this diaristic account, at once humanistic and harrowing.
—Steve Dollar, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
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The e-mails feel more diaristic than the former President’s tweets, which were written with a larger audience in mind (haters, the media).
—Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2024
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These scenes have a soapbox didacticism completely at odds with the more diaristic qualities of the movie, the moments marked by the ache of memory.
—A.a. Dowd, Chron, 3 Nov. 2022
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There is also a decidedly diaristic element at play in Zhang’s fictional work.
—Olivia Aylmer, Vanity Fair, 31 July 2017
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The assortment is personal, but obliquely so, a diaristic collage of external rather than internal sources.
—Leah Ollman, latimes.com, 18 Aug. 2017
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These moments insert an almost diaristic chatter into the usual silence of abstraction.
—Matthew Bourbon, Dallas News, 22 Apr. 2020
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The photographs—spare tabletop still-lifes by the artist Laura Letinsky—break up the diaristic prose like quiet exhalations.
—Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2021
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The camera follows these modern creatures low to the ground, with minimal narration, creating a roving, diaristic dog’s-eye view.
—Kate Knibbs, Wired, 7 Sep. 2020
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My buddy Joe, for instance, described his most active group chat with two old friends as a place for free-form spouting of nonsense, a diaristic brain dump best used while waiting in line at the bagel place.
—Matthew Schnipper, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2025
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The book consists of four nonfiction essays punctuated by occasional diaristic entries from the author, as well as a dash of fiction.
—Carolina A. Miranda, The Atlantic, 18 Oct. 2024
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Despite top-shelf performances from its actors, that play, too, ceded too much space to diaristic moments of being, to borrow a phrase from Virginia Woolf.
—Rhoda Feng, Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2024
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The collection has a diaristic quality, made concrete by text written on and in between the photographs, in Philomene’s handwriting.
—The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2021
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That’s not to say Clairo strayed too far from the highly personal, diaristic and borderline stream-of-consciousness lyrics that first endeared her to her ever-growing fanbase.
—Dan Hyman, chicagotribune.com, 17 July 2019
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Lane fuses diaristic insight and journalistic inquiry for a look at a modern medical development told through the lens of self-discovery.
—Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2023
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Griffith’s lyrics might be understood as a precursor for Taylor Swift’s diaristic songwriting.
—Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
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Throughout the two-thousands, the indie-rock band Bright Eyes recorded diaristic folk music that eventually expanded into pop.
—The New Yorker, 23 July 2021
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The diaristic entries have the simplicity of a show-and-tell, with Murakami’s spare prose offering a material history of his closet.
—Charlene K. Lau, The Atlantic, 16 Nov. 2021
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Its diaristic approach, with Anderson at times narrating from her childhood and adult diary entries, and fly-on-the-wall feel lend it an intimacy that is usually missing from endeavors like this.
—Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 27 Jan. 2023
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As the author was a very early Instagram employee and his debut novel, which comes festooned with blurbs from literary tech skeptics, is framed as a diaristic exposé, we are primed for some high-stakes, close-to-the-bone satire.
—Jonathan Russell Clark, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2023
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Yet while Gray today is more about self-preservation than the wild nights of years past, Louder, Please is also, at points, a bracingly candid record, offering a diaristic account of the past few years of her life.
—Liam Hess, Vogue, 19 Sep. 2024
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