Hemingwayesque

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adjective

Reminiscent of Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961), American writer and journalist, or the understated quality of his prose or the themes he wrote about, including war, wilderness, love, and loss.

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Meanings

adjectiveHemingwayesque (comparative more Hemingwayesque, superlative most Hemingwayesque)

comparative more Hemingwayesque · superlative most Hemingwayesque

  1. Reminiscent of Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961), American writer and journalist, or the understated quality of his prose or the themes he wrote about, including war, wilderness, love, and loss.

    White contrasted the spare, "chastened" Hemingwayesque school of straight writing with gay writers like Proust (and Edmund White too) who were "free to indulge in ornament."

    1982 December 25, Neil Miller, “Making Things Queer”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 23, page 6

Origin

From Hemingway + -esque.

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