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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.
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Bill Heavey,
WSJ,
16 Sep. 2022
Locke the glossy belletrist gave way to Locke the fellow-traveller, Locke the savvy champion of proletarian realism.
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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
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There’s a lot of hard work that goes into being a shopping writer, but there’s a lot of play, too.
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Times staff writer Sonja Sharp contributed to this report.
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Reflecting this, in 1726’s Gulliver’s Travels, the Irish litterateur Jonathan Swift satirized early scientists as buffoons.
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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.
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Kerri comes from an improv background but is also a technical wordsmith.
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One of two Colorado spellers competing in the Scripps National Spelling Bee advanced to Wednesday’s quarterfinals, conquering the first three rounds of the competition that drew nearly 250 of the nation’s best young wordsmiths to Washington, D.C., this week.
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Rikki Kanellopoulos is a vintage collector and stylist and the founder of Sourced by Rikki.
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An InStyle editor taps a stylist to see how the fashion crowd is styling their sports jerseys this season.
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In 1996, Joan Didion unholstered the X-Acto knife that was her pen and went to work on Bob Woodward.
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Police said the men searched the victim's pockets and took the vape pen.
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Beatty’s biographer, Peter Biskind, also famously estimated that the number of women Beatty had slept with could be as high as 12,275.
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Beatty’s biographer, Peter Biskind, also famously estimated that the number of women Beatty had slept with could be as high as 12,275.
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Regarded as an auteur and a leading figure in slow cinema, Weerasethakul has worked outside the confines of commercial Thai cinema on films that explore subjects like memory, dreams, sexuality, political violence, and folklore.
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But this just feels like a Spielberg auteur film to me.
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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).
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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.
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“Belletrist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/belletrist. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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