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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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At the time, film and TV writers were boycotting major studios and fighting for fair compensation.—
Cerys Davies,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Feb. 2026
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Kyle Lucia Wu is a writer based in New York City.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
18 Feb. 2026
Noun
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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
Noun
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But Fleming leaps past other wry wordsmiths with his constant, unrelenting effort to wring every last drop of laughter out of every single premise.—
John Roy,
Vulture,
19 Feb. 2026
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An outstanding producer and a clever wordsmith.—
Victoria Uwumarogie,
Essence,
27 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Silas attended House of Heavilin Beauty College and was a beloved hair stylist.—
Kacen Bayless,
Kansas City Star,
17 Feb. 2026
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Additional cords wrapped once around the ankle and tied at the side, and a slim stiletto heel, which could be seen in photos posted on social media from stylist Sophie Lopez, completed the silhouette.—
Maggie Clancy,
Footwear News,
16 Feb. 2026
Noun
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An 18-year-old man pled guilty this week to a 2024 homicide over vape pens and was sentenced to 30 years in prison, Tarrant County district attorney Phil Sorrells said.—
Lillie Davidson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
20 Feb. 2026
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The Supreme Court ruled that Trump does not have the power to impose sweeping tariffs at the stroke of a pen.—
Margie Cullen,
The Providence Journal,
20 Feb. 2026
Noun
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But where there might be a distinction is between the actions of the family and the future of the monarchy, said Jonathan Dimbleby, the King’s biographer and friend.—
Jamie Timson,
TheWeek,
20 Feb. 2026
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David Greenberg, a historian at Rutgers University and a biographer of the civil-rights leader John Lewis, told me that the right could have made a persuasive case against the excessive preoccupation with slavery and racial politics that some on the left have shown.—
Thomas Chatterton Williams,
The Atlantic,
13 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The film, and Cort's Brewster, epitomized all the possibilities of the New Hollywood movement that emerged in the late '60s and early '70s, which empowered auteur filmmakers to make complex, unusual films that would have been unthinkable a decade prior.—
Wesley Stenzel,
Entertainment Weekly,
11 Feb. 2026
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The ’70s were fulcrum years that saw the rise of both the auteur filmmaker and the big blockbuster—sometimes in the same combustible package.—
Michael O’Donnell,
The Atlantic,
10 Feb. 2026
Noun
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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 22 Feb. 2026.
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