But a former classmate, Ben Stillman, described his presence in class as Hemingwayesque. From Wordnik.com. [Stanford Mystery:] Reference
I should add that the phrase "This sort of stuff" has a lovely Hemingwayesque ring to it too. From Wordnik.com. [Hillary's Top Female Supporters Rally Around Obama] Reference
J. Peterman: Some are annoyed by the Kentucky company's cloying, Hemingwayesque descriptions of clothes. From Wordnik.com. [Peri Picks] Reference
I had anchored it there in this peaceful cove, pitched a tent for the night, and felt quite Hemingwayesque. From Wordnik.com. [Cortellazzo] Reference
Still others advocate the stripped-down Hemingwayesque style of short direct and punchy sentences and actions. From Wordnik.com. [December « 2007 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website] Reference
This approach is not necessarily deadly; Joseph Hansen's moderately Hemingwayesque style, for example, crackles and bites. From Wordnik.com. [Faceless Killers] Reference
Even if you write in short, declarative, Hemingwayesque sentences, its your word choice that may determine your comparison. From Wordnik.com. ['I Write Like' Website Goes Viral, Authors Bewildered] Reference
The sudden appearance of magic was like reading a novel written in a Hemingwayesque style that suddenly threw in a few paragraphs of Jamesian pastiche. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Debate] Reference
As for your son, I fished with my father for a few years – nothing Hemingwayesque, just trout from a river – when I was a boy, and one day, one day only, outdid him in the catch. From Wordnik.com. [What I Did On Holiday « Tales from the Reading Room] Reference
Also I subscribe quite heavily to the Hemingwayesque theory that a story only has so much vital energy behind it, and every time you tell the story, some of that energy is dissipated. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-04-13] Reference
Not exactly on a par with Nabokov and Cheever, whose work was appearing in The New Yorker at the same time, Hunt instead imitated the hard-boiled Hemingwayesque style in vogue in those years. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-02-01] Reference
But it turns out that all of the above writers are disappointing in exactly the same way as the so-called serious writers---and I suspect that the reason they have gained so much critical praise is because their prose is so much like the prose of the serious writers, lyrical rather than just descriptive, discursive instead of direct in the old hardboiled, Chandleresque/Hemingwayesque way, and "serious.". From Wordnik.com. [Be cool, get Shorty, find a victim, be a villain, look for Rachel Wallace, and say a deep blue goodbye] Reference
Hemingwayesque sentences, its your word choice that may determine your comparison. From Wordnik.com. [WRAL.com Top Stories] Reference
They wrote Hemingwayesque stories, listened to jazz in Greenwich Village, and smoked cigarettes. From Wordnik.com. [The Chicago Blog] Reference
Stylistically, it ranges from Hemingwayesque straightforward simplicity to Proustian narrative complexity and descriptive splendor. From Wordnik.com. [Bookbrowse - Best Recent Reader Reviews] Reference
Hemingwayesque prose, recalls Ollestads childhood and the magnetic man whose determination and love infuriated and inspired him-and also taught him to overcome the indomitable. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Actor Danny Glover Shares his Candid Mother's Day Memories with Fathers' Rights Attorney Jeffery Leving on 106.3FM] Reference
A real neighborhood place is the Hemingwayesque ideal, the café of his short story "A Clean, Well Lighted Place," where an old man can drink his liquor or take his supper in the company of humanity, staving off the crippling loneliness of old age. From Wordnik.com. [Hungry Magazine] Reference
Set amid the spontaneous, uninhibited surf culture of Malibu and Mexico in the late 1970s, this riveting memoir, written in crisp Hemingwayesque prose, recalls Ollestads childhood and the magnetic man whose determination and love infuriated and inspired him-and also taught him to overcome the indomitable. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Actor Danny Glover Shares his Candid Mother's Day Memories with Fathers' Rights Attorney Jeffery Leving on 106.3FM] Reference
It’s actually a good title, sort of Hemingwayesque. From Wordnik.com. [French Art, Bulgarian Sales « Whatever] Reference
No, I don’t entertain delusions of Hemingwayesque writing abilities. From Wordnik.com. [Blathering Lockdown: Day Three « Whatever] Reference
Very harsh and raw and Hemingwayesque. From Wordnik.com. [The Bog at the End of the World] Reference
"Glass eye, walked with a limp, doubled as rugby master, sang doo-wop, Hemingwayesque character - name of John Malone. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Very Hemingwayesque. From Wordnik.com. [The LoHud Yankees Blog] Reference
In the press and on the Internet, it's more common than "Kafkaesque," "Hemingwayesque" and "Dickensian" put together. From Wordnik.com. [If It's 'Orwellian,' It's Probably Not] Reference
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