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also belle-lettristic
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Adjective
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Borrowing from the likes of Luchino Visconti with his eye for exquisite period detail, the great Stanley Kubrick turned to 18th-century literary adaptation in his epic picaresque of a young cad named Barry Lyndon.—
Christina Newland,
Vulture,
5 Sep. 2025 -
There are no sections that go entirely unloved by our staff, but some favorites include literary fiction, cookbooks, sci fi and fantasy and all things kids' books.—
American Booksellers Association,
USA Today,
5 Sep. 2025
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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
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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
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Weapons' lifetime gross is still far afield of its closest horror competitor this year, Ryan Coogler's bombastic vampire thriller Sinners.—
Ryan Coleman,
EW.com,
24 Aug. 2025
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American Ben Shelton, who has risen up the charts with his bombastic play and off-court appearances, including with girlfriend Trinity Rodman.—
Jacob Feldman,
Sportico.com,
21 Aug. 2025
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For birthdays, scholastic achievements and other random celebrations, my parents would bring out that red plate for me or my siblings.—
R. Eric Thomas,
Mercury News,
6 Sep. 2025
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As Kolade attests, significant challenges exist in both scholastic funding and the supply chain.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
20 Aug. 2025
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Guigal’s strategy isn’t built on pompous conservatism, but in long-term thinking.—
Paul Caputo,
Forbes.com,
22 Aug. 2025
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Louis Partridge will take on the scheming Mr Wickham, with Jamie Demetriou playing the pompous Mr Collins, Daryl McCormack as Jane’s beloved Mr Bingley, Siena Kelly as his sister Caroline and Shaw as the fearsome Lady Catherine de Bourg.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
15 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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There’s no florid wallpaper and no nostalgic oil paintings.—
Adriane Quinlan,
Curbed,
31 July 2025
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Under the agreement, which provides a conceptual framework for the redevelopment, Goddard would retain Burger King’s original buildings, designed in a florid post-Modern style typical of the 1980s by prominent national architectural firm Hellmuth Obata & Kassabaum, today know as HOK.—
Andres Viglucci,
Miami Herald,
18 July 2025
Adjective
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Donovan’s Meyers is fascinating in his stilted weirdness, a bit of a dandy and a bit of a dork.—
Sheri Linden,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Aug. 2025
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Meanwhile, on the banks, cooking classes sizzle with lemongrass and tamarind—as water buffalo graze lazily beside stilted homes.—
Lewis Nunn,
Forbes.com,
24 Aug. 2025
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Some nomenclature gets a little more flowery.—
Bart Jansen,
USA Today,
5 Sep. 2025
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There’s something dark budding beneath the flowery surface of NBC‘s Grosse Pointe Garden Society.—
Claire Franken,
TVLine,
23 Feb. 2025
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“Belletristic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/belletristic. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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