demotic

Example Sentences

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Today’s readers, used to the twittering demotic of our age, may need to adjust to this titanic prose-poem’s leisurely, mandarin style.

From Washington Post

Gallagher’s “DeLuxe” is more refined, but it also registers loss — the loss of Black identity, the marginalization of Black culture — even as it dances around the demotic idiom of old-style magazines.

From Washington Post

We could add the mirroring of the current crude demotic political discourse.

From The Guardian

Her prose could be lush, or raw and demotic, or carefree and eccentric, often on a single page.

From New York Times

This collection of linked stories, set on an unnamed Aegean island and featuring a cast of wry, rough-talking Greeks reeling from the country’s economic devastation, showcases Ikonomou’s wit, compassion and infallible ear for the demotic.

From New York Times