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also belle-lettristic
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The first season of Prime Video’s Off Campus follows a fake dating bargain between Garrett Graham (Belmont Cameli) and Hannah Wells (Ella Bright), and, as with most literary bargains of this nature, the romance becomes real.—
Dessi Gomez,
Deadline,
13 May 2026 -
Diogenes owns one of the most valuable literary catalogs in the world and has been turning books into series and feature films for decades.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
13 May 2026
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These sound particularly good in Morgan’s mouth, with his non-actory, declamatory way of speaking.—
Television Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Feb. 2026
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The cast features nonprofessional actors drawn from the area; their declamatory style of performance, along with Mateus’s hieratic images, endow the movie’s dramatic realism with the power of myth. 19.—
JUSTIN CHANG,
New Yorker,
5 Dec. 2025
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Those reservations have been blown up by the bombastic presence of Alcaraz combined with Sinner’s stoicism, a synergy seen in full force at Roland Garros last year.—
José Criales-Unzueta,
Vanity Fair,
12 May 2026
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That claim sounds bombastic when much of the art world sees the headline grabbing Banksy as a guilty pleasure at best.—
Daniel Cassady,
ARTnews.com,
7 May 2026
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The team also captured the women’s scholastic championship.—
Chris Hays,
The Orlando Sentinel,
1 May 2026
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When not identified early, this can potentially derail a student’s scholastic trajectory from the very first days of school.—
Sherri Helvie,
New York Daily News,
19 Apr. 2026
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Then give the land back, you pompous charlatans.—
Joe Soucheray,
Twin Cities,
2 May 2026
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And the less said of the poorly mixed, pompous Machina, the better.—
Kory Grow,
Rolling Stone,
3 Mar. 2026
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There was Coppola’s over-the-top defense of his friend with a grandiloquent gesture (Tanen declined to sell).—
Michael O’Donnell,
The Atlantic,
10 Feb. 2026
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Reform—Within Reason Malthus aimed to puncture Godwin’s grandiloquent progressivism.—
Roy Scranton,
JSTOR Daily,
18 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The song, which Diamond wrote with Alan and Marilyn Bergman, laments the cooling of a romance in language as direct as the music is florid; the recording, as the story goes, came in response to a homemade edit by a radio programmer eager to hear the two stars sing together.—
Mikael Wood,
Los Angeles Times,
6 May 2026
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The desperate, contrary need to be different — to be florid — pulled me completely out of the story.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
22 Apr. 2026
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Inspired by Arcachon’s traditional stilted fishing huts, this signature suite has been styled by a succession of couture designers, starting with Maison Martin Margiela.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
6 May 2026
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After the singing the men lapsed into a stilted small talk again.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 May 2026
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“Belletristic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/belletristic. Accessed 16 May. 2026.
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