How To Use belles lettres In A Sentence
- The novel, The Shakespeare Chronicles, was begun almost immediately but, like many avocational belles lettres, took a long time to finish. Stromata Blog:
- Some, indeed, of belles lettres, poems, plays, or memoirs, he tossed indignantly aside, with the implied censure of psha, or frivolous; but the greater and bulkier part of the collection bore a very different character. Chapter XX
- The term belles lettres emerges only in the seven - teenth century. LITERATURE AND ITS COGNATES
- James, the more disposed of the two to the study of Belles Lettres, excelled in Literature; was eminent as a favourer of the Fine and Liberal arts. Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.
- Today belles lettres both in French and English, is used rather rarely and the noun “belletrist” and the adjective “belletristic” have assumed a faintly derisive shade of frivolity and incon - sequence. LITERATURE AND ITS COGNATES