How To Use Bookish In A Sentence

Literature is no longer "bookish" -- but practical, social, propagandist. Studies in Early Victorian Literature
He's maybe late forties, early fifties, bookish, greying, bespectacled, wispy - perhaps an academic.
John was my ideal: the unbookish bookman.
Also like The Hours, which reworked Virginia Woolf, this narrative triplex is built on a bookish foundation: the poetry and ontology of Walt Whitman. New Fiction
Received a hottish email from Jacqueline Bartlett of the St. Martins Booktown Initiative informing me that her Shipbuilding and Fishing village’s claim to bookishness is anything but bogus. St. Martins, New Brunswick Booktown: The Real Thing

Jenny was bookish; the only young man capable to follow her train of thought was Michael - with whom Jenny often engaged in heated debates about philosophy and boring books.
His lifelong innate bookishness is barely noticed. Barbara Probst Solomon: Larry Rivers After Crossing His Delaware
His role is essential, as he's the counterpoint to the bookish and serious Ernesto, and it would be easy to overplay the oversexed Alberto.
All the witches who'd lived in her cottage were bookish types.
Earlier monolingual dictionaries were mainly concerned with ‘hard’ words: the bookish, Latinate, and technical vocabulary of Renaissance English.
Common to all of this material, however, is its unliterary, that is, unbookish, character which is in marked contrast to virtually all of Anglo-Saxon epic literature, influenced as it is, to a greater or lesser degree, by Christian or classical models.
The interspersion of artworks with two classes of text distinguished the Chicago exhibition and indexed its probity, even bookishness, in the most positive sense.
How can the story of a mentally defective kleptomaniac, a bookish nympho, a crippled FBI agent and a suicidal millionaire's son add up to anything but trouble?
Beginning by ridiculing Cunningham's numerous bookish allusions – nothing makes a novel seem more vulnerable, more naked, than an armour-plating of literary references. Review of The Hours author's latest book wins inaugural hatchet job award
Why should indulging in bookishness be regarded as peculiar, anyway?
Sutherland is an emeritus professor of English Literature at University College, London, chairman of this year's Booker panel, columnist for the Guardian, regular reviewer for the FT, and an all-round regular expert and consultee on matters bookish. In critical condition
She's bookish, highly-strung and overeager as the film commences.
The atmosphere at home was a heady mix of bookish culture, genteel poverty and violence.
Disillusioned with events in the publishing world, he decided to turn his back on the mainstream bookish blatherskites and focus on independent literary fiction and culture.
bookishness" of some of the panels of incidents from American literature, and several of them went to beautify the great house on the The Development of Embroidery in America
Because of a tradition of teaching English formally through grammar, translation, and literature, spoken usage is often stilted and bookish.
The two men strove to write poetry that was stripped of all rhetorical flourishes, bookish or archaic language. Times, Sunday Times
By day, as a student living with his genteel hosts, he cultivates the persona of a bookish young man given to headaches and dizzy spells.
Like Paris handsome [34] and like Hector brave, but as pious as Aeneas; "a rich fellow enough," with blood hopelessly blue and morals spotlessly copy-bookish -- in other words, a Sir Charles A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
There are people whose bookishness is a substitute for, rather than a stimulus to their own thinking.
For when the schools depart from the educational conditions effective in the out-of-school environment, they necessarily substitute a bookish, a pseudo-intellectual spirit for a social spirit.
Here Will is supposed to be the everyman, the character with whom we should sympathize, which is quite a bit to rest on his slim, bookish shoulders. Zap2it.com - Zap 2 News & Buzz
Even boys without bookish hopes aped their careless style of dress and the ritual swordplay of their speech.
Mark's a bookish hospital porter seemingly allergic to romantic relationships.
Nor is he an old-fashioned, bookish poet with antiquarian tendencies like Tennyson.
Small and rather shy, Madison usually dressed in black, had the bookish pallor of a scholar, and cut a somber figure.
My grandfather always said Sandy was cleverer than he was, but he was an ‘unbookish’ sort.
This is a further indication of the influence of bookish language on the spoken style.
I was a shy, bookish, bespectacled and klutzy thing, so naturally the protagonists of my fiction were the exact opposite. Nora’s Sunday Quickie: Mary Sue with dragons! «
Yes, publishers have lots of great unsung content on their sites such as Random House's Word and Film subsite but I hope Bookish brings in real journalists to do a sprucing up of all the material taken from the publishers' sites. Laura E. Kelly: 5 Ways to Screw up "Bookish"
The climax of the musical is a whirling dance routine pitting a rugged Dr. Mahathir against the bookish Mr. Anwar, who is now Malaysia's top opposition leader. Malaysia's Strong-Arm Leader, in Song
His role is essential, as he's the counterpoint to the bookish and serious Ernesto, and it would be easy to overplay the oversexed Alberto.
There is no help and no escape for any of us in a story that can't escape its own bookishness.
I had always thought of this boy as unassertive and bookish.
She explains: For the first time ever, I think, I was really honest about who I actually was and what I wanted: bookish, professional, a nondrinker. First Comes Marriage
As a shy, bookish child, I felt very much an outsider when I was growing up, and the discovery of our secret Romany past was the key which unlocked a mass of possible explanations.
It's movie dialogue, to be sure - no one, especially the sort of low-life characters they tend to write, speaks with such mellifluous, bookish vocabulary.
Actually, I find the candidates a bit adorably nerdy when they lapse into this kind of bookish vocabulary.
Avoid what are called bookish, inkhorn, terms; shun words that have passed out of use, and those that have no footing in the language -- foreign words, words newly coined, and slang. Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition
The work of narrative to pose a problem and then solve it with perfect closure is known as the rescuing function, and I guess that when we needed rescue, it was there in bookish form, even if not there abundantly in reality. Agatha Christie and Guilt « Tales from the Reading Room
Nothing seems to me so inane as bookish language in conversation.
Then (in Roger's vision) he could see the garlanded bibliopole turning to the expectant audience, giving his trailing gown a deft rearward kick as the ladies do on the stage, and uttering, without hesitation or embarrassment, with due interpolation of graceful pleasantry, that learned and unlaboured discourse on the delights of bookishness that he had often dreamed of. The Haunted Bookshop
His poetry gives evidence of a bookish and extremely thoughtful life while encountering the forms and rituals of cultures without literatures — West African, Mexican and Central American — as well as the writers — Augustine, Goethe, Rilke, David Hume, Hugh MacDiarmid — whose traces we find allusively placed throughout his work. A mess of errors : Stephen Burt : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
Then (in Roger's vision) he could see the garlanded bibliopole turning to the expectant audience, giving his trailing gown a deft rearward kick as the ladies do on the stage, and uttering, without hesitation or embarrassment, with due interpolation of graceful pleasantry, that learned and unlaboured discourse on the delights of bookishness that he had often dreamed of. The Haunted Bookshop
However, you may care to bear the existence of this book in mind when next you need a present for a bookish friend.
Good news for us bookish, globetrotting, art-loving, film and theatregoing types. Times, Sunday Times
Having successfully dodged active service, he spent most of the war in Berkshire, writing radio talks for the BBC and bookish articles for the Statesman.
The bookish historian now accepts it, reluctantly and ungraciously enough.
For such speakers, Latin had always been a strange, alien, and bookish tongue.
Bookish and academic, Snyder is at the same time a friendly sort whose soft-spoken demeanor draws people in.
I thought, when I first opened the package, that I was going to have to write a carefully worded piece saying only that, if you're looking for a Christmas present for a bookish friend, this might do.
My dad is a small, bookish, Jewish man with an interest in international politics – but all those years ago he was also a keen martial artist, with extensive sideburns, open-necked shirts and an unwillingness to back away from a confrontation. Teaching my son about violence | Phil Hilton
Not surprisingly, given this background, the stories nearly all involve bookish men; old churches, libraries and cathedrals feature heavily.
Sayid does use a lot of bookish language.
My parents have always been bookish people and obviously my father went to Cambridge and I grew up feeling that I must do the same.
Dreamy and bookish, he soon wearied of college life and enlisted in the dragoons.
a bookish farmer who always had a book in his pocket
Here the encumberment was less remarkable, but one wall had completely disappeared behind volumes, and the bookishness of the air made it a disgusting thought that two persons occupied this chamber every night. The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories
I anticipated someone overtly bookish, withdrawn or slightly gauche, and whose idea of fun was deciphering crossword puzzles.
The conductor, head vocalist, and stage hand for this bookish choir is George Murray, who co-founded Bookninja with fellow author Peter Darbyshire back in 2003, when the phrase “book blog” still had to qualified with some form of descriptor for the web-challenged. The world is coloured ‘Ninja red this week
Soon these two bookish characters fall in love.
Readers of the nine bestselling Mitford novels awaited the publication of each novel, relishing the story of the bookish and bighearted Episcopal priest and the extraordinary fullness of his seemingly ordinary life. Home to Holly Springs by Jan Karon: Book summary
While he was introverted, shy and bookish, she was an extrovert who ensured that he lived life to the full. Times, Sunday Times
By the 1941 Christmas season, the bookish technician got wind of an outlandish project to determine if ethnicity was a factor in the flying business.
He was more bookish and intellectual than many of his fellow students.
Animal is like an English village green retooling of Vampire Weekend, simarly inspired by African pop but more breezy and lacking in the Americans' bookishness. This week's new singles
He was serious and bookish. Times, Sunday Times
Almost six in ten women think men who read books are more interesting and intelligent while almost half think bookish blokes are more sensitive.
Annalise whose zest for life and whose loud raucous ways had been both shocking and enticing to the bookish Emily.
I have recently realized that sometimes my writing is too bookish and sometimes it isn't bookish enough, all depending on who happens to be reading it.
Similarly the earl himself describes him as 'a man that as much knowledge has of war as I of brewing mead -- a bookish nursling of the monks -- a meacock. ' Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 422 Volume 17, New Series, January 31, 1852
A highly sensitive and bookish boy, he felt he had largely educated himself by his reading in great authors.
Even the most bookish work that seems esoteric on the written page can be transformed by actors into the cadences of characters and themes.
I wanted to be admired by pretty, bookish women.
‘You may think him bookish and unsocial now, but as he matures he'll come to love the court, as you do.’
It is this d ” ” d bookishness which is so unreal. Father Payne
As always the 'scientists' are described as bookish nerds who bore policy makers and reporters with p-values. ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
And I would dearly love to be unshackled from my bookish heritage and have the culture, freedom and the nerve to join in.
Shehen the civilized, the pacific, the bookish, the lover, the citizen, the law-abider, was in part his product. Shehens` Houn` Dogs
Director Joe Wright is utterly unbookish; he never read the novel, having devoted his life to reading movies intensively instead.
She's bookish, bespectacled, redheaded, and stubborn!
I dont see anything wrong with writing bookish English, though it lacks a tad of fluency, its certainly elegant and exquisite.
Nor is he an old-fashioned, bookish poet with antiquarian tendencies like Tennyson.
He usually appears in a three-piece tweed suit, a starched white shirt, a bowtie, and bookish glasses - a get-up that, like his artwork, would be easy to mock if it didn't mock itself.
Macmillan was a bookish man, an avid reader and a prolific diarist and writer.
I was a bookish kid, largely because of coordination problems that didn't really get sorted out until 1987-8.
With longish, mousy brown hair and thick glasses, Bertram is bookish, a sharp contrast to the less formal, hip Poirier.
Born into a bookish, slightly eccentric family, she grew up in the shadow of her mother's nervous temperament and the role of caretaker she assumed as a result.
He was more bookish and intellectual than many of his fellow students.
It came as a result of the combination of your bookishness, fertile imagination and love for typography.
The two men strove to write poetry that was stripped of all rhetorical flourishes, bookish or archaic language. Times, Sunday Times
He was serious and bookish. Times, Sunday Times
For such speakers, Latin had always been a strange, alien, and bookish tongue.
He is not what may be called a bookish preacher -- that is to say, his sermons do not smell of the lamb. Life of Charles T. Walker, D.D., ("The Black Spurgeon.") Pastor Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, New York City
In English parlance (or at least the parlance of my university generation), my - and it sounds like your - core identity is a 'bluestocking' - female, bookish, determined to make up their own mind, not into power/material things in any competitive way (though we are often surprisingly domestic in selected areas, such as cake baking or crafting or homemaking, and we tend to amass books), fascinated by knowledge for its own sake and driven to find out more and to share what we find with others. A New Chapter, Or a Different Story?
He was an oddball child, his bookishness and poetry out of step with his surroundings on the prairie earth.
It sounded like the daydream of a lonely and bookish boy.
With a deep and abiding detestation of competitive sports, he was naturally bookish.
The scriptwork, calligraphy and artwork are nothing short of magical and there is a further treat for bookish types as you get to wander through the barrel vaulted Long Room Library as well.
Since we chatted, I have thought so much about the reading list and how my understanding of what Joe was thinking in creating it has changed the sense of distance and isolation that I'd been feeling as a result of his bookishness. We're Not on the Same Page, but That's OK
Kooser never makes an allusion that an intelligent but unbookish reader will not immediately grasp.
It's these same bookish types who tend to get in a bit of a flap when images or ideas from literature are appropriated by more popular media.
This "bookishness" formed a real defect of Renaissance systems of training. Early European History
Almost all the topics of conversation were foreign to me, but then I came from a bookish family and was studying philosophy, French, and classics at university.
Watch out for the odd appearance of Satan himself - slightly androgynous, bookish-looking and smooth-talking.
Even in unbookish homes, unread copies stood proudly on bookshelves as a tribute to an American warrior and hero.
And I shouldn't neglect to say that even as a four-eyes totally bookish wimp introvert, I did a moderate amount of playing with the kids in the neighborhood, in the street: stickball, and punchball, and bouncing the ball off the stoops, and just running around the backyards of houses we shouldn't go near, climbing trees and fences, wrestling, etc. When having a hobby was my hobby
She even floors Sherry's decidedly unbookish friend, Ferdy, by kindly including his name in the roster.
The seeds for new things bookish and wordish; and the challenge will be to see how they transplant to the various soils of the region, cross-pollinated with local partnerships. Mabuhay!
She was not a bookish person, but she loved to read as well as do things like fishing and gardening; she also loved doing things with me.
But to concentrate on the theory means that you are bookish, weedy, un-masculine and alien.
One of the famous stories about old books is the following: ‘A man who was very much interested in old books ran into an unbookish acquaintance of his who'd just thrown away an old Bible which had been packed away in the attic of his ancestral home for generations.’
And I shouldn't neglect to say that even as a four-eyes totally bookish wimp introvert, I did a moderate amount of playing with the kids in the neighborhood, in the street: stickball, and punchball, and bouncing the ball off the stoops, and just running around the backyards of houses we shouldn't go near, climbing trees and fences, wrestling, etc. When having a hobby was my hobby
Sealed in their Gaelic oral tradition, the Highlanders themselves had little need of a bookish literature, but two great writers were to make them a topic of universal human interest.
He was the picture of the tweedy, eccentric professor, bookish and reclusive.
Booklovers are thought by unbookish people to be gentle and unworldly and perhaps a few of them are so.
In this sanctuary he is to be found, his punishing day's tally of work completed, sitting content, smoking endless pipes and gossiping with bookish friends the moon down the sky.
While he was introverted, shy and bookish, she was an extrovert who ensured that he lived life to the full. Times, Sunday Times
Maybe DQ is more like a road movie, a bookish version of Thelma and Louise or Bob Hope and Bing Crosby. Don Quixote Musings « So Many Books
They were readers of newspapers and periodicals, they were eternal students in the best sense, they were bookish people.
She is brilliantly but mordantly characterised by her bookish son.
Way back when she was stuffing her hair in scrunchies and smearing Clearasil across her T-zone, she had her first boyfriend, a bookish eighth-grader named Eddie who had a pink retainer and a silver bike. Georgia’s Kitchen
March 16, 2006 18: 49 tuba: simon bookish is great. so are his remixes, esp the grizzly bear one, whom you all should really write about one of these days .... phiiliip's remix is fun too. Feeling a bit Bookish? (Music (For Robots))
He's an unlettered, un-bookish ignoramus, remember?
Bookish tales of moral consequence and unreciprocated passion dominated the box office at about the same time indie film-making came into its own.
My awkward bookishness could be overcome in that environment through being rather regularly and publicly recognised for achievements in creative writing, drama, public speaking and debating.
They employ scientific, or philosophical, or literary, or bookish terms that go over their congregations' heads.
Bogosian called the bookish president-elect "in the broadest sense of the word, a reader. - Latest Popular Stories, Instablogs Community

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