(a.) Given to reading; fond of study; better acquainted with books than with men; learned from books.
(a.) Characterized by a method of expression generally found in books; formal; labored; pedantic; as, a bookish way of talking; bookish sentences.
Example Sentences:
(1) A bookish teenager regarded as the smartest of the Murdoch brood, James endured an awkward adolescence in the public eye and was famously photographed asleep on a sofa at a press conference while working as a 15-year-old intern at his father's old paper, the Sydney Mirror, a picture the rival Sydney Morning Herald gleefully ran on its front page the next day.
(2) Trump insisted that he is a believer in free trade and declared: “I am not an isolationist.” But it was hard to escape the testy relationship between the bookish woman now seen as a crucial bulwark of the postwar liberal order and the brash businessman who rose to power on a populist tide.
(3) I was bookish and spectacled and I was really quite glad to move to a different sort of school."
(4) I’m a writer, a bookish soul, so style preoccupies me.
(5) "I guess David was the more bookish and Ed the more outgoing, but that's about it."
(6) I, for one, don't want to see the high streets of the future without their bookshops, which offer places to browse, community events, and bookish chat.
(7) My parents weren't that bookish, but they were devoted readers to me.
(8) It is a sad day when even the Booker is afraid to be bookish … People want to think.
(9) The Tsar of Love and Techno is published 6 October by Knopf Facebook Twitter Pinterest Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire Photograph: Publicity City on Fire, by Garth Risk Hallberg The mere sale of this novel – for a reported $2m, following hard upon news that it had been optioned by the movie producer Scott Rudin – caused a kind of sensation in bookish circles.
(10) The group occupied the building in protest at plans to close the library temporarily, reopening it as a “bookish gym”, with paid leisure services run by social enterprise GLL, and a smaller selection of books for borrowers.
(11) In fact, she has written a coming-of-age story: an involving, evocative tale that will have bookish women everywhere shuddering in recognition.
(12) Bechdel was operating under the assumption that the book would be read by the same audience as her fortnightly comic strip, Dykes To Watch Out For, about the domestic lives of a group of bookish lesbians, which has been syndicated in several alternative American newspapers for more than two decades.
(13) They are just sleeping on cardboard, nothing to keep them warm.” Behbudi has the slightly distracted air of a bookish academic, but his appearance belies a life of insecurity that left little time for education.
(14) When me and my sister started writing a sitcom about teenagers, we wanted to write about all the most agonising and awful things about being a teenage girl, and my hopeless non-affair with Pavid Dreen became the basis of the first episode: there's nothing quite like a fat, bookish teenage girl who wants to be "noble", and accidentally says "forsooth!"
(15) He was a friendly, easy-going youth - some might call him lazy; he was certainly anything but bookish.
(16) There's an undeniably bookish quality to Sebald's writing; despite his originality, some of his effects come from other writers.
(17) Griswold still finds that 15% or more of kids are deeply bookish.
(18) The air of clubbishness, a cool, bookish intimacy, persists.
(19) The suave, silver-fox proprietor, Antony Farrell, keeps the press running with the aid of an ever-rotating crew of young interns, giving the premises the vibe of an affable and bookish Bond villain’s lair.
(20) Labour’s bookish new leader has nothing personal against the country’s largest landowners.
Literary
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to letters or literature; pertaining to learning or learned men; as, literary fame; a literary history; literary conversation.
(a.) Versed in, or acquainted with, literature; occupied with literature as a profession; connected with literature or with men of letters; as, a literary man.
Example Sentences:
(1) If wide notice is taken of a current spat over what we can read about Shakespeare’s sexuality into the sonnets in the correspondence columns of the Times Literary Supplement, Sonnet 20 may be a future favourite at civil unions.
(2) Two decades after Donna Tartt soared to literary stardom with her debut The Secret History, the reclusive author is set to release her third novel this autumn.
(3) The cytologic findings can be considered to be satisfactory in regard to literary data.
(4) Wood will play Brinnin, an American poet and literary scenester who was friends with Thomas as well as Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams.
(5) It became his task to use his literary art in an opposite way to Hesse, even though he despaired of what literature might achieve or of the capacity of rich Europeans to change.
(6) But we can add that there is no competition, from the economical viewpoint, between the post-oedipal sublimation, type political involvement, and the preoedipal sublimation, type literary creation.
(7) Literary agent Andrew Kidd said: "I have nothing against readability but some books are more challenging.
(8) He moved on to Tunis and Paris, and became editor-in-chief of the influential literary review Al-Karmel.
(9) Was he being put forward as the foremost literary novelist of his generation, one whose best-known work stands comparison with The Naked and the Dead , Gravity's Rainbow , American Pastoral , Beloved and Underworld ?
(10) She sent the finished manuscript to Elaine Greene , a London literary agent.
(11) She also won four Logies for Most Outstanding Public Affairs Report in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013, the Melbourne Press Club Gold Quill in 2013, the George Munster award and the Queensland Premier’s Literary Award – for stories on people smuggling and the culture of rugby league.
(12) Every time he felt the futility of his work for the NAACP, he’d finger the well-worn pages, and it would strengthen his resolve.” This is how classics of this calibre work their way into the literary bloodstream.
(13) Like many ambitious young writers, he sought both popular success and literary acclaim.
(14) His favourite literary genres as a child were detective stories and Greek myths.
(15) But also, in the sense that they crossed over the line of the acceptable literary and visual culture and brought the Mexican modern movement into being.
(16) We arrive also to the conclusion that, in contradiction with what we have seen in the literature overview, it seems that narcissistic personality disorders have no negative effect on literary creation.
(17) The Tasmanian writer said he was “stunned” to be in the running for the prestigious UK-based literary prize, which for the first time has been opened to authors of any nationality.
(18) You may not know it, but literary ghosts are everywhere.
(19) The literary data on the reexamination of the holotype are given.
(20) Despite our difference in generation, gender and literary purpose, it was clear to me that he and I were both working with some of the same aesthetic influences: film, surrealist art and poetry; Freud's avant-garde theories of the unconscious.