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单词 essayistic
释义

essayistic

adjective

es·​say·​is·​tic ˌe-(ˌ)sā-ˈi-stik How to pronounce essayistic (audio)
1
: of or relating to an essay or an essayist
2
: resembling an essay in quality or character

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web That said, this essayistic approach frees up Fitzgerald to tell long stories, unhampered by the demands of chronology. Stuart Miller, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2022 But there’s an essayistic quality to this story, which lobs around these questions of storytelling. Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 4 July 2022 Holleran’s novels have become increasingly essayistic over time. Garth Greenwell, The New Yorker, 6 June 2022 The book seems to be addressing typical readers of essayistic nonfiction like myself: People who have time, and at least some money, to spend preparing for an apocalypse. Rebecca Stoner, Outside Online, 25 Apr. 2020 His more popular one was an essayistic series on the long shadow of the September 11 attacks with Pineapple Street, Wondery, and Amazon Music. Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 29 Dec. 2021 Curtis’s book is much less essayistic, and more traditional. Jo Livingstone, The New Republic, 21 Jan. 2022 Novak’s essayistic style leaves room for the kind of ambivalent truths that never resolve into a call to action. New York Times, 12 Oct. 2021 Major Labels is an essayistic medley rather than a straight chronological history, with a generous helping of memoir included along the way. Jack Hamilton, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2021 See More

Word History

First Known Use

1862, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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