belletrist

Mark you, as a belletrist he can be unpredictable in a less refreshing way.

He is an old-fashioned belletrist, with all the virtues and shortcomings.

Nowadays "belletrist" is almost a term of insult.

Bromwich balances the light touch of the belletrist with the gravity of academe.

Lipus himself has developed into an outstanding belletrist.

A writer of belles-lettres is a belletrist.

Which is why we must be grateful to Simon Loftus, an English wine merchant and belletrist.

He graduated to question-and-answer interviews, then features, and now also writes a column that shares space with the noted belletrist Calvin Trillin.

For a while, Artie Shaw the belletrist forgets himself and talks music like Artie Shaw the clarinetist.

I can only surmise that the culpable misstatement must have been perpetrated not by the admired belletrist but by the mystery writer, who knew nothing of Mallarme.

But a belletrist Sontag has never been; a few of these pieces are quite fine, but most reproduce the faults of her earlier essays while eschewing their virtues.

The canon of work by Ibn Hazm, prolific and important Andalusian jurist, belletrist, and heresiographer is extensive.

In his memoirs, the conservative belletrist Nikolay Strakhov recalled that in Russia Crime and Punishment was the literary sensation of 1866.

Even before 1917, Russian newspapers had a kind of belletrist tradition, Mr. Pushkov said, constantly examining the Russian psyche and picking at ancient sores like "What is Russia?"

Leavis, who notoriously had no hesitation about attacking canonical figures, was closer to this tradition, however much he detested the belletrist spirit, than he was to later developments in academic criticism.

His approach to history was essentially belletrist - based not so much on original research as on wide reading and an ability to bring to bear insights derrived from other disciplines on his subjects.

Geoffrey Spencer Madan (6 February 1895 - 6 July 1947) was an English belletrist, and a collector and creator of aphorisms, many of which are recorded in his Notebooks.

The term "Man of Letters" ("belletrist", from the French belles-lettres), has been used in some Western cultures to denote contemporary intellectual men; the term rarely denotes "scholars", and is not synonymous with "academic".

The despised belletrist criticism of an earlier day could make radical judgements in an off-hand manner; those articles, for instance, with titles like 'On Rereading Stendhal', which come to the conclusion that Stendhal has been much overrated.

Many other writers familiar with Kapuściński from translations only take him as a belletrist par excellence, Daniel Alarcón, the Peruvian-American novelist (b. 1977), citing him as a formative influence together with Dostoyevsky.

Deinard did not neglect Yiddish, and in the time he lived in Odessa, he published both Hebrew and Yiddish works by the Podolian-born historian and belletrist M. N. Litinsky.

Conservative writers like Mr. Buckley and George F. Will found Mr. Kempton praiseworthy, even if they did not always agree with him (Mr. Buckley considered him "the most entertaining analytical belletrist in town").

Arts, media, and performance organizations include: Amateur Radio Club, Belletrist, College Players, Dance Association, Film Society, FITV, Florida Tech Pep Band, The Crimson and WFIT.

He added that Sholokhov, in spite of his public glorification as a "proletarian Tolstoy", was a literarily inexperienced author, far from being well-read, who was recruited at a young age by the GPU and was prepared for the role of a major writer and party belletrist.