A Jamesian parable set among Left Bank glitterati. From Wordnik.com. [Mirror, Mirror] Reference
My mom would most likely find the Jamesian style offputting. From Wordnik.com. ["Landslide!"] Reference
These are the Jamesian elements in the film (James Bond, that is). From Wordnik.com. [Mission Accomplished] Reference
Jamesian manner which hint dark and subtle complexities to follow. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Jazz Age] Reference
"We can't pierce futurity," he had once said to me in a Jamesian way. From Wordnik.com. [Beard] Reference
Munro also returns again and again to the Jamesian subject of the artist. From Wordnik.com. [A Quiet Genius] Reference
They were thus, in this Jamesian sense, the most monogamous of American artists. From Wordnik.com. [Howard Milstein Against the World! Run Over, Tough Guy Fights Back] Reference
But the peculiarity of the Jamesian theory comes in reference to “a feeling.”. From Wordnik.com. [Emotions in the Christian Tradition] Reference
Can we learn to look at drug-induced illusion with enthusiastic Jamesian innocence?. From Wordnik.com. [The Nitrous Oxide Philosopher] Reference
The woman with the Jamesian name had descended upon us and made us conscious of our frailty. From Wordnik.com. [Beard] Reference
That alone would not make this Henry James, were it not for the eruptions of Jamesian turns of phrase. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Professor:] Reference
It is the most Jamesian moment in the playlet of Crawford; one can almost see the subtly arched eyebrow. From Wordnik.com. ['The Moment Has Come to Get Rid of Saddam'] Reference
The first is “Letters Home: a Jamesian Inerlude,” written by Willingham and drawn by Elena Casagrande. From Wordnik.com. [Comic Round-Up: Week of 5/26 - Pink Raygun.com] Reference
Cast as his memoir, the novel is an ambitious attempt to explore an intricate, even Jamesian, consciousness. From Wordnik.com. [Hortense Calisher.] Reference
I also wondered what a novel would be like if it were as subtle as "Maisie" without all the Jamesian syntax. From Wordnik.com. [Gail Godwin's 'Solo Notes' Journal: Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature] Reference
Several big-league clubs have Jamesian disciples on staff, but none has the clout to make personnel decisions. From Wordnik.com. [Whatever happened to the stolen base?] Reference
Henry Jamesian enterprise where society and marriage, politics and landscapes, mix without obscuring the pattern. From Wordnik.com. [Nadine Gordimer and the South African Experience] Reference
But Mr. Dyer means it: His art is one of languid, suspended watching, lulling the reader into a morbid Jamesian arousal. From Wordnik.com. [Love, Death and Geoff] Reference
Wilson gets quite right Bolton's "Jamesian technique in Do I Wake or Sleep: the single consciousness that observes all.". From Wordnik.com. [A Lost World] Reference
Maybe I will take whoever's advice that was and do a series of Jamesian commentaries for this winter's long-form serial LJ posts. From Wordnik.com. [Kenneth Hite's Journal] Reference
Her editor wouldn't know what was going on, but would of course have to pretend he did, being a man of Jamesian sensibility himself. From Wordnik.com. [the deer leap]
The Victorian novel with a few Jamesian knobs on (lyrical Realism, ELF, call it what you will) is not the only path the novel can take. From Wordnik.com. [2008 November 15 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS] Reference
The two youngest brothers, Wilkie and Bob, married early and unhappily, then sank into work at un-Jamesian jobs, including railway clerk. From Wordnik.com. [The Varieties of Experience] Reference
Perhaps I'm nearing a better understanding of this Jamesian stuff. From Wordnik.com. [Serendip's Exchange] Reference
It is an almost Jamesian tale of complex psychology, not just ideas. From Wordnik.com. [All articles at Blogcritics] Reference
However, you won't catch Gomes making any Jamesian gaffes these days. anfieldred. From Wordnik.com. [TEAMtalk Football News] Reference
This Jamesian perspective pervades Gerald Callahan's smart and compassionate book. From Wordnik.com. [New Scientist - Online News] Reference
Pooh later becomes an Ellen The mother is one of the characters in Garp's Jamesian and murders Garp. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
But of course Trilling is Jamesian, powerfully so as he reveals this response to be something less than honest. From Wordnik.com. [The Valve] Reference
Nemesis, melodramas carefully disguised by early paragraphs in Jamesian manner which hint dark and subtle complexities to follow. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Jazz Age] Reference
A whole book of Jamesian subtlety could be written on simply this episode - or maybe, in some years 'time, a biopic or BBC4 drama. From Wordnik.com. [Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk] Reference
Often referred to as a Proustian painter because he painted from memory rather than from life, Bonnard is even more a Jamesian one. From Wordnik.com. [The Nation: Top Stories] Reference
And the unexpectedly solid album constructed around it is every bit a classically Jamesian combination of loose lip and tight ship. From Wordnik.com. [Fulldls.com] Reference
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