belletristic

variants also belle-lettristic

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for belletristic
Adjective
  • Stoker’s Frankensteined creation was born from the history of the Anglo-literary vampire that begins with Polidori’s Ruthven, the first aristocratic, Byronesque and demonic seducer.
    Robert Eggers, HollywoodReporter, 17 Oct. 2025
  • As the number of book bans and restrictions in schools and public libraries across the nation continues to grow, so does a robust network of citizens fighting against the narrowing of literary access, according to a yearly report by First Amendment literary advocacy group PEN America.
    Angele Latham, Nashville Tennessean, 17 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Yet the power in these two performances isn’t supplemented by much texture in the stern, declamatory writing: There’s little sense of how this relationship functions, or once functioned, outside these particularly fraught scenes.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 9 Aug. 2025
  • 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
Adjective
  • Could the wound spring of questioning and longing and relationship anxiety sound bombastic, or fun, or like an ’80s pop song?
    Eric Torres, Pitchfork, 20 Oct. 2025
  • His bombastic style, unfiltered rhetoric, and policy disruptions galvanized the Republican base while triggering a seismic reaction among Democrats.
    Nafees Alam, Boston Herald, 18 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Morris played both baseball and football in high school, and was a scholastic All-State quarterback who reportedly turned down 20 collegiate offers to sign with the Phillies for $25,000 in 1960.
    Jon Paul Hoornstra, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Oct. 2025
  • For true scholastic style, pair it with penny loafers or Mary Janes.
    Francesca Krempa, Travel + Leisure, 19 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • While The Morning Show presents the news business as glossy and glamorous (and often a little pompous), The Paper takes the opposite view with the documentary crew from The Office now focusing on a dying newspaper in Ohio.
    Emma Alpern, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Guigal’s strategy isn’t built on pompous conservatism, but in long-term thinking.
    Paul Caputo, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Reform—Within Reason Malthus aimed to puncture Godwin’s grandiloquent progressivism.
    Roy Scranton, JSTOR Daily, 18 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The screenwriter, Nora Garrett, has achieved an amusingly florid Hollywood simulacrum—one that tilts into knowing parody—of an intensely self-regarding world.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Schnabel has already introduced his most florid gambit: flashbacks to Dante Alighieri, who is played by Isaac with a morose Shakespearean flourish.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The 21-year-old model walked slower than the other models, opting for a stilted gait in her white patent-leather pumps.
    Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Floating above the treetops on a stilted concrete walkway, with rooms situated inside a series of glass cylinders, the futuristic-looking hotel will reimagine high-end hospitality through the same lens of experimental design as the residences.
    Siobhan Reid, Robb Report, 7 Sep. 2025
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“Belletristic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/belletristic. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.

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