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- adjective Reminiscent of Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961), American writer and journalist.
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Examples
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Chartering Mr. DiLernia's boat isn't exactly Hemingwayesque.
Hooking Edible Tourists Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011
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Chartering Mr. DiLernia's boat isn't exactly Hemingwayesque.
Hooking Edible Tourists Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011
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As for your son, I fished with my father for a few years – nothing Hemingwayesque, just trout from a river – when I was a boy, and one day, one day only, outdid him in the catch.
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Chartering Mr. DiLernia's boat isn't exactly Hemingwayesque.
Hooking Edible Tourists Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011
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Even if you write in short, declarative, Hemingwayesque sentences, its your word choice that may determine your comparison.
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Even the language he uses is weirdly secondhand: a bizarre mélange of Hemingwayesque action prose and romance-novel clichés that manages to feel faux macho and sickly sweet at the same time.
An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs. 2008
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We were part of neither a lost nor found generation, but more like an unknown generation of Chicago writers (unknown even amongst ourselves), which one of our own (spiritual leader of hard knocks and street-wise mentor, the incredible and inimitable Jay Robert Nash), with considerable Hemingwayesque bravado had dubbed us: “The Anti-establistmentarianists.”
ron offen | 2 poems and more about… « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2007
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Still others advocate the stripped-down Hemingwayesque style of short direct and punchy sentences and actions.
December « 2007 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2007
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Still others advocate the stripped-down Hemingwayesque style of short direct and punchy sentences and actions.
Thoughts on "Good" Writing « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2007
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I should add that the phrase "This sort of stuff" has a lovely Hemingwayesque ring to it too.
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