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Definition of belles-lettres in English: belles-lettresplural noun bɛllɛtʀbɛlˈlɛtr(ə)ˌbɛlˈlɛtrə also treated as singular Essays, particularly on literary and artistic criticism, written and read primarily for their aesthetic effect. he inspired me with the desire to restore writing on art to nineteenth century belles-lettres elegant dabbling in belles-lettres Example sentencesExamples - We review both belles-lettres and nonfiction.
- Lowenstein notes that the exclusion of Jews from prestigious professions such as the higher bureaucracy, military, and judiciary stimulated cultural creativity in more open environments such as journalism and belles-lettres.
- Books of literate and entertaining essays on occasional topics - what used to be called belles-lettres - are no longer common, and that is a shame.
- 'With an Essay on Style' and 'Essays from the Guardian' encapsulate his engagement with Victorian periodical journalism and belles-lettres.
- This is downright impossible unless you reach for the treasury of belles-lettres, for its rich variety of expression.
Synonyms learning, scholarship, erudition, education, knowledge, book learning, academic training
Derivatives nounbɛlˈlɛtrɪz(ə)mbɛlˈlɛtrɪzəm mass nounThe study or composition of essays, particularly on literary and artistic criticism, that are written and read primarily for their aesthetic effect. a formidable piece of bibliographical belletrism Example sentencesExamples - The effect of assigning this kind of importance to the cultivation of taste through belletrism is twofold.
- Thomas Sheridan's protests aside, elocution existed as a support to belletrism by legitimizing the rationale, by incorporating its logic into the realm of embodied performance.
- If elocution exists to treat delivery as such, we see in the continued tradition of belletrism a kind of bidden theory of delivery.
noun bɛlˈlɛtrɪstˌbɛlˈlɛtrəst A person who writes essays, particularly on literary and artistic criticism, that are composed and read primarily for their aesthetic effect. a fine scholar of literature and history as well as a sublime belletrist Example sentencesExamples - By that time, at the age of thirty-seven, he'd already achieved the status of Russia's leading young belletrist, his volumes of short stories published, praised and wreathed with awards, his career as a dramatist evolving.
- He shone as a belletrist whose engaging and accessible prose is always fun to read.
- It certainly wouldn't fit next to the writings of belletrist genres that resemble intellectual Rubik's cubes, nor is it pulp fiction or easy literature that carries the reader away from daily humdrum.
adjective ˌbɛləˈtrɪstɪkˌbɛləˈtrɪstɪk The belletristic choices were at their behest, not mine, but I agreed to readings that I thought I could work with. Example sentencesExamples - If the old World's Classics had any introductions at all (most didn't) they were short belletristic effusions by writers such as Virginia Woolf or G. K. Chesterton.
- The interest of the time was not in belletristic fiction but in the free-flowing, highly intellectual critical essay, with its elements of autobiography and historical skepticism and its pointed illuminating aphorisms.
Origin Mid 17th century: from French, literally 'fine letters'. Rhymes Petra, raison d'être, tetra Definition of belles-lettres in US English: belles-lettresplural nounˌbɛlˈlɛtrəˌbelˈletrə also treated as singular Essays, particularly on literary and artistic criticism, written and read primarily for their aesthetic effect. he inspired me with the desire to restore writing on art to nineteenth century belles-lettres elegant dabbling in belles-lettres Example sentencesExamples - Lowenstein notes that the exclusion of Jews from prestigious professions such as the higher bureaucracy, military, and judiciary stimulated cultural creativity in more open environments such as journalism and belles-lettres.
- This is downright impossible unless you reach for the treasury of belles-lettres, for its rich variety of expression.
- 'With an Essay on Style' and 'Essays from the Guardian' encapsulate his engagement with Victorian periodical journalism and belles-lettres.
- We review both belles-lettres and nonfiction.
- Books of literate and entertaining essays on occasional topics - what used to be called belles-lettres - are no longer common, and that is a shame.
Synonyms learning, scholarship, erudition, education, knowledge, book learning, academic training
Origin Mid 17th century: from French, literally ‘fine letters’. |