commentatorial love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Relating to or characteristic of commentators.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Pertaining to the making of commentaries.

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  • adjective Relating to the making of commentaries.

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Examples

  • Twice he broke silence for what might he called commentatorial speech.

    The Silent Places 1904

  • The centre of commentatorial gravity about the Liberal Democrats, especially at the end of a manifestly pivotal budget week, can best be summed up in two statements that are ostensibly hard to reconcile.

    The coalition honeymoon is over, but the marriage has plenty left 2010

  • Although rigid in its discipline, it admits of commentatorial treatment which, while heightening the interest of the student, is calculated to stimulate alike his ambition and his imagination.

    Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata 1906

  • It was inevitable that the whole literary energy of a nation which is commentatorial or nothing, should be flung on such a subject as the

    The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) George Saintsbury 1889

  • As Shakespere is by far the greatest of all writers, ancient or modern, so he has been the subject of commentatorial folly to an extent which dwarfs the expense of that folly on any other single subject.

    A History of Elizabethan Literature George Saintsbury 1889

  • The centre of commentatorial gravity about the Liberal Democrats, especially at the end of

    Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com 2010

  • And at the level of language and comprehensibility, and in the wake of the the wide middle of the commentatorial field, I was reduced, through the weekend, to feeling as though into my oatmeal someone had mortar and pestled a mortal dose of pills labeled: “Warning: Kill kill kill kills. â€

    Harper's Magazine Wyatt Mason 2008

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