Look out, though, whenever Larson grows personal and essayistic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thomas Larson's 'The Saddest Music Ever Written,' reviewed by Michael Dirda] Reference

But these essayistic departures are swept along by the author's storytelling skill.    From Wordnik.com.  [A life in writing: James Robertson] Reference

More than anything, it perversely makes me want to write an essayistic poem myself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Writing and Failure (Part 8) : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference

Literary intellectuals have become too tolerant of essayistic digressions and sententious reflections.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference

Theater without morals as in Molière, theater without any of the thumping essayistic exchanges of Shaw.    From Wordnik.com.  [Whipped Cream] Reference

I won't write more now, as I'm contemplating a longer and more essayistic post on the subject, but it is really spectacular.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-06-01] Reference

Under the science and essayistic portions of his novels, his characters and human plots are still drawn rather conservatively.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wooden Disposition : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits] Reference

It's hard to remember how confrontational and strange his essayistic personal style seemed when audiences first encountered it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Werner Herzog, the adventurous spirit] Reference

Susan Sontag sounds like Susan Sontag whether we read the essayistic Illness as Metaphor (1978) or the novel The Volcano Lover (1992).    From Wordnik.com.  [Style in Fiction] Reference

The book is not historical in the academic sense, but essayistic, as lively and polemical in thought as it is felicitous in expression.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Literature of Nihilism] Reference

Don't -- I think I'm much better telling a story than I am at analyzing a-- a larger situation, writing kind of in an essayistic fashion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II's Most Dramatic Mission] Reference

Most of her other early prose writings are essayistic in nature: portraits of artists, reviews of theater and cabaret, even circus performances.    From Wordnik.com.  [Else Lasker-Sch��ler.] Reference

Perhaps it's inevitable that, in assuming the mantle of policy maven, he's left behind the more nuanced, essayistic voice that put him on the map.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kathryn Schulz: Check, Please: Atul Gawande's The Checklist Manifesto] Reference

He kept returning to that year in Auschwitz, both in his fiction and in his essayistic examinations, Moments of Reprieve and The Drowned and the Saved.    From Wordnik.com.  [If This Is a Man] Reference

The New Republic had also pioneered a Diarist feature on the last page, which was designed to be a more personal, essayistic, first-person form of journalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why I Blog] Reference

The NYRB also revived her best known novel, Sleepless Nights, an autobiographical and essayistic portrait of, among many other things, her marriage to Lowell.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs.] Reference

All this intutive knowledge and wisdom is expressed in the book's story and action, by the way: there isn't a single "literary" pause for an essayistic aside.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-06-01] Reference

I agree that many of the essays collected over the years in various books of American essays and personal essays and essayistic essays are ... well ... boring.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-12-01] Reference

Beck's signature piece is an essayistic rant, "The One Thing," a free-form monologue that can run to lengths that are the television equivalent of War and Peace.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lapham's Quarterly: Perfecting the Paranoid Style in 500 BC and 2009] Reference

He presented the history of the Roman liturgy in an interesting, essayistic way and by this he presented a popular and profound analysis of the liturgical problem.    From Wordnik.com.  [12th Liturgical Conference of Cologne] Reference

This funny essayistic voice is the same one we hear in Amis's amusing and accurate literary essays, collected in "The Moronic Inferno: And Other Visits to America.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Martin Amis's 'The Pregnant Widow' Is A 'Strange, Sparkling Novel' (New York Review)] Reference

In the instance of Beethoven the critical or essayistic side is limited.    From Wordnik.com.  [Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4] Reference

Content could be classified as an essay film, but it's less essayistic than aphoristic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brit Lit Blogs] Reference

I'll never forget that chilly blast of ethics; it still reminds me of his essayistic voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Emdashes] Reference

Untethering his essayistic ambitions from ground-level journalism does not serve Danner well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist] Reference

Perhaps it's because his famed novelistic (and essayistic) energy had not waned, even after 50 years writing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph Blogs] Reference

She is currently finishing a book-length essayistic memoir about being a teenage runaway in 1970s San Francisco.    From Wordnik.com.  [CounterPunch] Reference

Most essayistic celebrations of friendship have also been about the deep and total commitment that can exist between one person and another.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

Analytical articles stand alongside essayistic and literary observations by renowned authors and theorists such as Hélène Cixous or Federico García Lorca.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eurozine articles] Reference

Wallace's essayistic voice is so utterly charming and friendly, you don't want ever the book to end, and you forgive him for being way, way smarter than you are.    From Wordnik.com.  [WordPress.com News] Reference

The book is pleasingly short and essayistic but also heavily footnoted; he says it is for the general reader but perhaps wants to keep his legal peers onside too.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

That it requires all of Buruma's essayistic skill to condense these debates into a compact work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Powell's Books: Overview] Reference

Nonfiction as artful as Sea­biscuit doesn’t get written without the essayistic gift of marrying instance to abstraction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Style in Fiction] Reference

I've always seen my novels as very essayistic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Status-tician] Reference