Saturday, November 15, 2014

word of the day: belletristic

The word of the day is belletristic:

Of, pertaining to, or having the characteristics of belles-lettres
Written or appreciated for aesthetic value rather than content (wordnik.com)


"Ever quick to deprecate what he couldn't understand, Bottie, feeling bellicose, called the choreography belletristic, the music narcissistic, the lighting fidgety and arcane, and yet he wooed the entire corps de ballet, having divided and conquered them with one bouquet....

"Shortly before his dishonorable demise, Vast Monthrock established a foundation for writers of belletristic bellicosity and insupportable hypotheses."

 - Karen Elizabeth Gordon, Out of the Loud Hound of Darkness: A Dictionarrative

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