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also belle-lettrist
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Recent Examples of belletrist
The philologists, unlike the belletrists, were methodical and systematic, and given to expounding those methods and systems in lengthy treatises.
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Evan Kindley,
The New York Review of Books,
16 Feb. 2023
Harrison is almost the textbook example of a belletrist—someone who writes essays more for their aesthetic effect than anything else.
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Bill Heavey,
WSJ,
16 Sep. 2022
Locke the glossy belletrist gave way to Locke the fellow-traveller, Locke the savvy champion of proletarian realism.
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Tobi Haslett,
The New Yorker,
11 May 2018
Evan Kindley,
The New York Review of Books,
16 Feb. 2023
Harrison is almost the textbook example of a belletrist—someone who writes essays more for their aesthetic effect than anything else.
—
Bill Heavey,
WSJ,
16 Sep. 2022
Locke the glossy belletrist gave way to Locke the fellow-traveller, Locke the savvy champion of proletarian realism.
—
Tobi Haslett,
The New Yorker,
11 May 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for belletrist
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Times staff writer Alene Tchekmedyian contributed to this report.
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Just a guess but the Babylon Bee writers caught wind of the Royals two-game stretch last week when they were outscored 35-3.
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Clearly, by now — that is, 1835 — science had done enough to prove itself in the eyes of the litterateurs.
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The book was first published anonymously, and its authorship is consequently uncertain, though usually attributed to a minor poet and litterateur named Wu Cheng’en.
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Kerri comes from an improv background but is also a technical wordsmith.
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But Fleming leaps past other wry wordsmiths with his constant, unrelenting effort to wring every last drop of laughter out of every single premise.
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Colin King, stylist to the stars, designed one that anchors its matching bedscape in his 2023 Cultiver collaboration.
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This enabled attendees to not only take in the education in greater detail, but also to share with other stylists and colorists at their salons.
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An unidentified woman wearing sunglasses and a face covering made her way down 7th Avenue behind the media pen across from Madison Square Garden.
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Another shot shows two pups — a mostly white one and a light brown one with a white muzzle — standing up in their pens.
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Antonia Fraser, the biographer and historian, will be present, as will Tina Brown, the former editor of Vanity Fair and The New Yorker and one of the most influential voices in transatlantic media.
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According to biographer Robert Jobson, a suspicious Prince William was anxious that Meghan would wear his mother’s jewels during the wedding.
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Madonna was stopped dead in her tracks by the strapping 30-year-old auteur of the nouvelle vague gangster movie Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, an eye-popping directorial debut.
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Creators Destin Daniel Cretton and Andrew Guest lend an auteur’s touch to the material, creating something that stands on its own while still bearing some of the MCU’s crowd pleasing flourishes.
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Its design by Leonardo Fioravanti, the prolific penman who created, among other Ferrari masterpieces, the Dino and 308 GTB, was an instant hit.
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“Belletrist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/belletrist. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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