Girls were certainly drawn to him, especially those of a bookish nature with a love of the arts. From LearnThat.org. [yourdictionary.com]
A bookish farmer who always had a book in his pocket. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Literature is no longer "bookish" -- but practical, social, propagandist. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in Early Victorian Literature] Reference
Bogosian called the bookish president-elect "in the broadest sense of the word, a reader.". From Wordnik.com. [Entertainment News: CBSNews.com] Reference
He is not what may be called a bookish preacher -- that is to say, his sermons do not smell of the lamb. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Charles T. Walker, D.D., ("The Black Spurgeon.") Pastor Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, New York City] Reference
As always the 'scientists' are described as bookish nerds who bore policy makers and reporters with p-values. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
I wouldn't really classify her as "bookish," either. From Wordnik.com. [On Private Calls, Top Obama Advisers Expressing Real Worry That Complacency Will Damage Fundraising, Turnout] Reference
Friends may call you "bookish," but you prefer the term "well informed.". From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-09-01] Reference
I hadn't really thought of her in terms of "bookish" songs until now though. From Wordnik.com. [Music Mundays - Loreena McKennitt] Reference
My mom is normally kind of bookish, but just wants to do something different. From Wordnik.com. [2 (or 3) Women; Where To Go For 1 Month?] Reference
NB: I am not an a writer and cannot comprehend all most of these 'bookish' language. From Wordnik.com. [Brooklyn Book Festival] Reference
They had to throw out "bookish" talk and learn from the vivid "caló" slang of the streets. From Wordnik.com. [October 2 is not forgotten - upsurge and massacre In Mexico, 1968 part 1: the youth revolt] Reference
And Peter Buck's job was to be the kind of bookish expert who has bad fashion sense and ugly glasses. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 19, 2003] Reference
Conversation like the following is commonly termed "bookish"; it is painfully correct and laboriously profound -- but it is not natural. From Wordnik.com. [Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story] Reference
These kinds of "bookish" people don't make it in the real world. From Wordnik.com. [random($foo)] Reference
First part, being 'bookish' was because the nature of article was as such. From Wordnik.com. [United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal] Reference
Conrad Black expects 'bookish' role teaching French in prison - temporarily. From Wordnik.com. [Media news, UK and world media comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk] Reference
She was as enthusiastic over the "bookish" side of the school as Winona over the athletic department. From Wordnik.com. [The Luckiest Girl in the School] Reference
Suzy wasn't serious or "bookish" like me, but all her teachers loved her, and I always thought of her as the smart one. From Wordnik.com. [ABC News: Health] Reference
"Tees Maar Khan" not to be renamed theatre school is planning to thumb its nose at 'bookish' norms - with a university of its own. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Bollywood actors walk the ramp for charity in Mumbai] Reference
His conception of form was never quite original; it was always a clever and "bookish" compromise between Raphael and Michelangelo. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference
A nice roundup of the thoughts of some "bookish" types on the comparison. From Wordnik.com. [Christian Science Monitor | All Stories] Reference
Fadiman seems the kind of bookish person you’d want to have for a best friend. From Wordnik.com. [A Pick Me Up « So Many Books] Reference
It may not suit a bookish clan that cannot understand. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Hanging Fork and Other Poems] Reference
The solemn, bookish phraseology came smoothly from his tongue. From Wordnik.com. [Riders of the Silences] Reference
The bookish, 32-year-old Oxford man has long been searching for a bride. From Wordnik.com. [Princess Bride: Japan's New Sweetheart] Reference
Born in Oceanside, N.Y., and raised in Freeport, he was a bookish child. From Wordnik.com. [A short biography of Nobel Prize winner Harold Varmus] Reference
Taunts at the unusual name, and the nearsighted, bookish boy who bore it. From Wordnik.com. [The Warrior] Reference
The vote was watched as something more than a local or bookish curiosity. From Wordnik.com. [The Texas-Size Debate Over Teaching Evolution] Reference
Quiet and bookish, with a small smile, Fraga makes a disappointing villain. From Wordnik.com. [The Nerd Who Saved Brazil] Reference
"I guess David was the more bookish and Ed the more outgoing, but that's about it.". From Wordnik.com. [The London comprehensive that's schooled Labour's elite] Reference
A bookish guy falls for a younger woman in this satire of a digitally enslaved America. From Wordnik.com. [Hardcover] Reference
Harmony and counterpoint gleam, with no aural smudges and not a jot of bookish didacticism. From Wordnik.com. [Brahms: Symphony No 4, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, Monteverdi Choir/Gardiner] Reference
Since being a teaching fellow, even simple cook-book experiments don't seem as cook-bookish. From Wordnik.com. [On Handling the Data] Reference
Perhaps it was his nearly bald scalp, perhaps the thick, bookish glasses in heavy brown frames. From Wordnik.com. [Vigorish] Reference
Home-schooling parents dispute the notion that their children are socially isolated and bookish. From Wordnik.com. [Education Begins at Home in Many US Households] Reference
Or bookish and reclusive Supreme Court Justice David Souter of neighboring New Hampshire, only married and more absent-minded. From Wordnik.com. [The Odyssey Of 'Jeezum Jim'] Reference
Brown himself, whose reputation is on the bookish side, said that he would urge a "balanced" approach of treatment, education and arrests. From Wordnik.com. [At Last, A Cop On The Drug Beat] Reference
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