belles-lettres
Example Sentences
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“Both anatomy and belles-lettres are of equally noble descent,” Chekhov once wrote to his publisher, adding that they share “identical goals and an identical enemy—the Devil.”
From The New Yorker
It's hard to pinpoint exactly what separates a mere commentator from a producer of belles-lettres, but you know it when you read it.
From Salon
More recently in Carmel there have been a great number of literary men about, but there is not the old flavor, the old dignity of the true belles-lettres.
From Literature
“It gives voice to every possible articulation of crime and mystery in belles-lettres,” she said.
From New York Times
Dandies, it seems, are dandy; but belles-lettres is better.
From The New Yorker
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