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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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Staff writer Sophia Eppley contributed to this report.—
Tia Mitchell,
AJC.com,
17 June 2026
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Many writers have done this before me, but there was an article that struck me where a university fed a machine learning algorithm all their classic pieces of literature, and the AI discovered that there’s only six to seven ways humans tell stories.—
Carita Rizzo,
Deadline,
16 June 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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Kerri comes from an improv background but is also a technical wordsmith.—
Maira Garcia,
Los Angeles Times,
5 June 2026
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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.—
Elizabeth Hernandez,
Denver Post,
26 May 2026
Noun
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Instead, the stylist incorporated King's hair into braids that led straight into the ponytail.—
Omenaa Boakye,
InStyle,
15 June 2026
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Basia Zamorska, the stylist that worked on Moynahan's gown, shared several details about the bride's look with PEOPLE.—
Caitlyn Hitt,
PEOPLE,
15 June 2026
Noun
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The organization has some internal options who could help their pen, including Triple-A arms Carlos Lagrange and Yovanny Cruz.—
Gary Phillips,
New York Daily News,
19 June 2026
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For under-eyes, blemishes or small scars, a wand or pen is the right form factor.—
Allison Palmer,
Miami Herald,
18 June 2026
Noun
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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.—
Tribune News Service,
Baltimore Sun,
13 June 2026
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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.—
Martha Ross,
Mercury News,
12 June 2026
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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.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
15 June 2026
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But this just feels like a Spielberg auteur film to me.—
Chris Nashawaty,
Entertainment Weekly,
13 June 2026
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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 23 Jun. 2026.
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