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also belle-lettristic
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Adjective
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The room, packed with about 100 people, was filled with members of the publishing industry and icons of New York City’s cultural and literary circles.—
Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy,
USA Today,
29 Apr. 2026 -
There’s no such thing as an expedient literary translation.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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These sound particularly good in Morgan’s mouth, with his non-actory, declamatory way of speaking.—
Television Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Feb. 2026
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The cast features nonprofessional actors drawn from the area; their declamatory style of performance, along with Mateus’s hieratic images, endow the movie’s dramatic realism with the power of myth. 19.—
JUSTIN CHANG,
New Yorker,
5 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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Woodman is known for being bombastic, but GoPro's track record in making indestructible camera gear is unmatched.—
Jim Fisher,
PC Magazine,
20 Apr. 2026
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Steinman’s music has always been described as big, bombastic, and operatic.—
Jed Gottlieb,
Boston Herald,
19 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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When not identified early, this can potentially derail a student’s scholastic trajectory from the very first days of school.—
Sherri Helvie,
New York Daily News,
19 Apr. 2026
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Fugard lets his scholastic streak drive a good deal of the conversation.—
Theater Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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And the less said of the poorly mixed, pompous Machina, the better.—
Kory Grow,
Rolling Stone,
3 Mar. 2026
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The pompous clergyman enters the life of the Bennet family, his distant cousins, with the assumption that, given his respectable position and benefactor, Lady Catherine De Bourgh, one of those daughters would be happy to marry him.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
26 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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There was Coppola’s over-the-top defense of his friend with a grandiloquent gesture (Tanen declined to sell).—
Michael O’Donnell,
The Atlantic,
10 Feb. 2026
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Reform—Within Reason Malthus aimed to puncture Godwin’s grandiloquent progressivism.—
Roy Scranton,
JSTOR Daily,
18 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The desperate, contrary need to be different — to be florid — pulled me completely out of the story.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
22 Apr. 2026
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Alito’s humble, low-key approach was measured against Kennedy’s florid interrogations, a contrast that gained resonance after Alito’s wife, Martha-Ann, collapsed in tears at the hearing.—
Peter S. Canellos,
The Atlantic,
10 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Unlike the stilted formality that can plague luxury properties, encounters feel genuine.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
26 Feb. 2026
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Interviewing public figures can be a very stilted experience.—
Marc Weingarten,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Feb. 2026
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“Belletristic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/belletristic. Accessed 3 May. 2026.
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