This "bookishness" formed a real defect of Renaissance systems of training.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early European History] Reference

It is this d ” ” d bookishness which is so unreal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Father Payne]

"bookishness" of some of the panels of incidents from American literature, and several of them went to beautify the great house on the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Development of Embroidery in America] Reference

His lifelong innate bookishness is barely noticed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barbara Probst Solomon: Larry Rivers After Crossing His Delaware] Reference

The last section extends this analysis by considering how bookishness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction] Reference

In effect, the novel makes no attempt to hide its Victorian bookishness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Duchess of Trajetto] Reference

Giamatti's bookishness was perfectly suited for an intellect like Pekar's.    From Wordnik.com.  [BEAUTIFUL LOSER] Reference

Given Selig's bookishness, the novel is also suffused with buried quotations from T.S.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dying Inside] Reference

If you are reading this post and you love wiggy bookishness, consider yourself tagged.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peace, order and good government, eh?: December 2006 Archives] Reference

Plus, for whatever reason — my dreamy temperament, my bookishness — I fit right in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Middlesex]

Crew is celebrating after a fashion bookishness and libraries and the sexiness of people who read?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-08-01] Reference

Adults admired their bashfulness, associating it with bookishness, reserve, and a yen for solitude.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness'] Reference

Gordon Brown's tediously advertised bookishness will work fine for just as long as the economy holds out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference

First, it must project an aura of bookishness; it should be less of a whizzy gizmo than an austere vessel of culture.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Future of Reading] Reference

But that did not trouble me: I knew, I felt that I should be understood and that this very bookishness might be an assistance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes from Underground] Reference

This may have turned me into a bookish snob the firechief was often snickering about, but I always err on the side of bookishness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top Ways Fahrenheit Influenced My Life] Reference

Marko is frequently beaten by the bullies who equate his comparative bookishness with effeminacy, but this avenue is never explored.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inside Man's Not So Lousy; Plus: Spike and Me on TV] Reference

I doubt Whitelaw was overly endowed with excesive IQ and bookishness, but he had a way of understanding people, and warmth of character.    From Wordnik.com.  [Does David Cameron Need a Willie?] Reference

As this explanation indicates, however, he seems to have regarded the bookishness of his time as an advantage rather than a disadvantage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alexander of Aphrodisias] Reference

A lot of bookishness of all types from PDF, novels, collections, anthologies and more, including VanderMeer and Baker and about Gil Kane.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Asimov's 331 - Gardner Dozois] Reference

The most painful part of the story proclaiming our bookishness: the USA Today stock photo shows the WSU flag flying above the Space Needle.    From Wordnik.com.  [more ego stroking, another #1 for our collective mantlepiece | Seattle Metblogs] Reference

To celebrate this abundant bookishness, today's list is going to be the first part of a one that I have been meaning to put up for a while.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference

His order of genius gains little from bookishness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Washington Irving] Reference

It relieved his culture from the taint of bookishness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Promise of American Life] Reference

It is its ethos, its ambience, the experience of bookishness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Culture | guardian.co.uk] Reference

It had to affect, in that time, bookishness and wiry scholasticism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded] Reference

Although, however, Diderot despised mere bookishness, his article on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2)] Reference

Bolaño has been, because of his bookishness, compared to Jorge Luis Borges.    From Wordnik.com.  [MOLESKINE LITERARIO] Reference

She disarmed the suspicion of recluse scholars by the absence of bookishness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I] Reference

Its lowest ebb was when bookishness led and people began to talk as they wrote.    From Wordnik.com.  [Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene] Reference

He presented his idols diffidently, but he expanded in Carol's bookishness, in Miss.    From Wordnik.com.  [Main Street] Reference

But voters have now seen far worse from their Congressmen than a little bookishness.    From Wordnik.com.  [TIME.com: Top Stories] Reference

But his well-knit body and clear eyes showed no marks of bookishness, and Italy had made him a swordsman.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Path of the King] Reference

He had only his bookishness and his certificates to set against it all -- and she had seen Carlyle's house!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love and Mr. Lewisham] Reference

"The Icelanders who settled in Minneota kept their Old Country habits of bookishness and contrariness in argument.".    From Wordnik.com.  [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference

All the unreality and mere bookishness of M. Comte's knowledge of physical science comes out in the passage I have italicised.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews] Reference