belletristic
Example Sentences
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“Rose’s dinners are like the great belletristic salons of Paris,” he said.
From New York Times ● Jun. 12, 2023
Professor Davison’s belletristic debut was as improbable as his academic baptism.
From New York Times ● Sep. 15, 2022
She stands at a kind of belletristic Sinai, alongside all the other literary generations.
From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2016
Just as telling is the inclusion of harmless belletristic exercises from artists otherwise known for their pugilistic talents.
From The New Yorker ● May 13, 2016
The worst against him—and that only in the opinion of the cut-and-dried among his fellow-scientists, who shook their heads doubtfully—had been a certain belletristic tendency.
From Atlantis by Adele Szold Seltzer
