bookish
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He served as a visual consultant on Stanley Donen’s 1957 film “Funny Face,” which starred Fred Astaire as a photographer who turns bookish Audrey Hepburn into a glamorous model.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026
The bookish thriller "Verity" cleaned up in its North American box office debut this weekend while Tom Cruise flopped in "Digger" playing a rich old guy who thinks he can save the world.
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
Eric, bookish and unathletic, grew up in 1920s Vienna.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
The bookish space, says Rebecca, 44, a bookseller, “isn’t perfectly aligned on everything. We don’t all like the same authors or even the same genres. I don’t think anyone expects that.”
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026
Daddy would have stood for a moment, taking in all the details and admiring the bookish young men and women scurrying past on their way to class.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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