bookish
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Bookish and shy, Benedict withdrew to a life of study and prayer “hidden from the world” after announcing in February 2013 that he would step down from the throne of St. Peter.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 31, 2022
Bookish Belle is widely perceived to be the ’90s Disney renaissance’s most forward-thinking role model.
From Slate • Apr. 2, 2018
A twenty-nine-year-old H.R. director who writes a blog subtitled “Bossy & Bookish in the South Bronx,” Santos has always wanted to be an entrepreneur.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 28, 2016
He wants to avoid the fate of Bookish, that much-hyped, soon-fizzled Web site originally backed by several major publishers.
From Washington Post • Mar. 17, 2015
Bookish professors and conventional students rarely have just such an animate problem of French artistry and Bohemian experience to solve.
From The Re-Creation of Brian Kent by Wright, Harold Bell
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