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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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Hutchins died at age 42 in October 2021 after a gun Baldwin was holding during Rust rehearsals discharged, striking her and the film’s writer-director, Joel Souza.—
Jack Smart,
PEOPLE,
31 Oct. 2025
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Every personal finance article is based on rigorous reporting by our team of expert writers and editors with extensive knowledge of financial products.—
Lori Zaino,
CNBC,
31 Oct. 2025
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Reflecting this, in 1726’s Gulliver’s Travels, the Irish litterateur Jonathan Swift satirized early scientists as buffoons.—
Thomas Moynihan,
Big Think,
7 Mar. 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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King Kyle Lee, a local artist and leader of the Anti Bullying Gang, helped make McKinnon’s hope turn into a reality, bringing a make-shift recording studio to the young wordsmith’s hospital room to lay down vocals for his track.—
Preezy Brown,
VIBE.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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In much the way Men in Love the novel places Welsh’s own writing in dialogue with the wordsmiths of history, the Men in Love album offers a conversation between two lovers.—
Sam Davies,
Rolling Stone,
30 July 2025
Noun
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In a meta wink, True Whitaker — daughter of Forest — plays Alani, the child of a famous actor content with an obviously fake job at his production company; Charlie (Jordan Firstman, another savant of front-facing video) is a stylist who mostly spends his days managing the ego of various pop stars.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
30 Oct. 2025
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Maia’s flaky friends Alani (True Whitaker) and Charlie (Jordan Firstman) are, respectively, a nepo baby with a titular vice presidency at her famous father’s production company and a mouthy stylist genuflecting at the feet of small-time pop singers.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
30 Oct. 2025
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Starting out as a fact-checker, Wallace was eventually able to use his pen.—
Brayden Garcia,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
3 Nov. 2025
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Big Papi was courteous and gentlemanly, unlike Grabby, who snatched at pens, glasses, hair—whatever was in sight.—
Ava Kofman,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2025
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Some very conservative biographer writes a biography of Ronald Reagan and some very liberal historian rights a biography of Reagan.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
28 Oct. 2025
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At the same time, President Ronald Reagan biographer Craig Shirley compared Ingrassia to the Democratic nominee to become Virginia’s next attorney general, Jay Jones.—
Naomi Lim,
The Washington Examiner,
23 Oct. 2025
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The horror auteur announced the new project on Instagram on Monday with a shot of the cover page of the series' pilot script, weighted down by one of the iconic black orbs.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
13 Oct. 2025
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Inside Guadagnino’s world, the auteur is famously known for unmasking another side of a performer.—
Malik Peay,
Essence,
9 Oct. 2025
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Miley admires the Shakes enough to have invited their Sound & Color engineer, Shawn Everett, to join Something Beautiful’s production crew (also present: Cyrus’s punk-rock significant other, Maxx Morando; pop penman Michael Pollack; and members of indie-rock acts Foxygen and Alvvays).—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
3 June 2025
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Its design by Leonardo Fioravanti, the prolific penman who created, among other Ferrari masterpieces, the Dino and 308 GTB, was an instant hit.—
Robert Ross,
Robb Report,
28 Nov. 2023
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“Belletrist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/belletrist. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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