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Sentence Examples Small and rather shy, Madison usually dressed in black, had the bookish pallor of a scholar, and cut a somber figure. I anticipated someone overtly bookish, withdrawn or slightly gauche, and whose idea of fun was deciphering crossword puzzles. With a deep and abiding detestation of competitive sports, he was naturally bookish. By day, as a student living with his genteel hosts, he cultivates the persona of a bookish young man given to headaches and dizzy spells. Actually, I find the candidates a bit adorably nerdy when they lapse into this kind of bookish vocabulary. Even boys without bookish hopes aped their careless style of dress and the ritual swordplay of their speech. Macmillan was a bookish man, an avid reader and a prolific diarist and writer. There are some who believe that bibliophobia may be caused by lack of bookish experience during childhood. Dreamy and bookish, he soon wearied of college life and enlisted in the dragoons. Like Virgil's, his shepherd-boys are marvellously bookish, and speak in well-turned phrases. It's these same bookish types who tend to get in a bit of a flap when images or ideas from literature are appropriated by more popular media. He was the picture of the tweedy, eccentric professor, bookish and reclusive. With longish, mousy brown hair and thick glasses, Bertram is bookish, a sharp contrast to the less formal, hip Poirier. Annalise whose zest for life and whose loud raucous ways had been both shocking and enticing to the bookish Emily. A highly sensitive and bookish boy, he felt he had largely educated himself by his reading in great authors. They were readers of newspapers and periodicals, they were eternal students in the best sense, they were bookish people. My parents have always been bookish people and obviously my father went to Cambridge and I grew up feeling that I must do the same. Almost six in ten women think men who read books are more interesting and intelligent while almost half think bookish blokes are more sensitive. But to concentrate on the theory means that you are bookish, weedy, un-masculine and alien. They employ scientific, or philosophical, or literary, or bookish terms that go over their congregations' heads. Show More Sentences For such speakers, Latin had always been a strange, alien, and bookish tongue. Because of a tradition of teaching English formally through grammar, translation, and literature, spoken usage is often stilted and bookish. Even the most bookish work that seems esoteric on the written page can be transformed by actors into the cadences of characters and themes. And I would dearly love to be unshackled from my bookish heritage and have the culture, freedom and the nerve to join in. However, you may care to bear the existence of this book in mind when next you need a present for a bookish friend. The atmosphere at home was a heady mix of bookish culture, genteel poverty and violence. Mark's a bookish hospital porter seemingly allergic to romantic relationships. How can the story of a mentally defective kleptomaniac, a bookish nympho, a crippled FBI agent and a suicidal millionaire's son add up to anything but trouble? By the 1941 Christmas season, the bookish technician got wind of an outlandish project to determine if ethnicity was a factor in the flying business. It's a town where the bookish, bewhiskered, occasionally bowler-hatted band members of the Decemberists can play perfect homegrown rock. Nothing seems to me so inane as bookish language in conversation. Aloof and bookish, Pius XI spent years as a Vatican librarian before becoming a diplomat and cardinal. With his bookish demeanour and command of several European languages, Mr Sapan is a fine advertisement for the rebels. Margot, three years older than Anne, was quiet and bookish but still a part of things. Great new novels on hippie California, a bookish adventure, and the gritty Midwest. People acquire bookish knowledge, but such bookish knowledge does not cause expansion of consciousness. It is not about theoretical models or bookish knowledge, but about practical application in the field. A visitor to the new building would be forgiven for forgetting Alden Press's bookish history and academic past. Garvey's father was a bookish man, as was Burrowes, and the youthful Marcus received early exposure to the world of letters. Find people who don't have a bookish knowledge but instead those with a real experience of human hearts and spiritual realities. Show More Sentences While the bookish set frets about the iPad, Kindle, and the future of publishing, the cool kids are eating their lunch. She is brilliantly but mordantly characterised by her bookish son. I have recently realized that sometimes my writing is too bookish and sometimes it isn't bookish enough, all depending on who happens to be reading it. While one can scarcely coax a cuss word from today's bookish youth, it turns out that their harshest critics, senior citizens, have gone delinquent. Born into a bookish, slightly eccentric family, she grew up in the shadow of her mother's nervous temperament and the role of caretaker she assumed as a result. Almost all the topics of conversation were foreign to me, but then I came from a bookish family and was studying philosophy, French, and classics at university. She's bookish, highly-strung and overeager as the film commences. How could such confirmedly bookish types write an I-love-reading book so fundamentally tone deaf as to why reading can inspire love? Disillusioned with events in the publishing world, he decided to turn his back on the mainstream bookish blatherskites and focus on independent literary fiction and culture. Having successfully dodged active service, he spent most of the war in Berkshire, writing radio talks for the BBC and bookish articles for the Statesman. I remember how the Master laughed at my question and very compassionately advised me to come without all that bookish knowledge to him. I had always thought of this boy as unassertive and bookish. There's a common misconception that being bookish implies a certain level of dowdiness, that it's impossible to care about literature as well as fashion. Though they were compiled from the composer's seven year cyclic newsletters to the spiritual groups abroad, they are, purposely, not printed in a bookish order. Over time, their High Church position had become ossified among a remnant of bookish churchmen and country squires. Obviously, neither Corneille nor the characters who laugh at excessively bookish speech avoid literary convention. Tell a bookish person you're going to interview Renata Adler and you can expect a range of reactions, everything from envy to wariness, to a sort of fear-stricken awe. Experience has shown that homework from textbooks gives the child at the very most a bookish culture and jeopardizes the child's right to engage in play. For the first time, shafts of natural light fall into parts of the central core and the reading rooms and there is the strong sense of a building that now breathes easily, rather than holds its stale bookish breath. They shared a common conviction that rehabilitation must rest on specific training which should be not only theoretical and bookish, but based equally on a real apprenticeship and a close acquaintance with the materials. Show More Sentences It's as if Mark Twain forgot what slavery is — the constriction of it, the implacability of it, all suspended while Tom Sawyer toys with a tediously extended, bookish prank. One of Rome's eternal stories is that of the bookish spinster from a cold clime, whose life has its late spring in Italy, and who loses her inhibitions, amid the ruins, with a man like Giovanni Ossoli. A library is not a collection of books made after a fixed pattern, but an offering of reading matter suited to the bookish needs of its community. The reading doesn't only give meaning to the drawing, the one and the other mix to form a visual and narrative architecture that reinvents the meaning of the bookish space. Whether they are the sporty, artistic or bookish type, teens' bedrooms are an extension of their personalities-places where they express themselves through décor. Professor Ted Hodgetts was both bookish and eminently practical. We know that the country's political system differs from bookish models and that the present stage of its development is only a step on the way that leads to a European-style system. A native Haligonian, the bookish son of a Wexford sea captain, Power was shy and insecure and had resisted appointment to the episcopacy out of fear of failure. Examples from Classical Literature I had not dared to look into her eyes, as I talked meaningless, bookish words. This good soul has given alienor rather more of bookish learning than Franois will probably obtain. Your minds are not your own, but the patches of other people's bookish duds. Casaubon and her sister than his delight in bookish talk and her delight in listening. He's vulgar and hysterical and bookish, but I don't think that sums him up. In a paper on his books, it is permissible to end with a bookish anecdote. He's vulgar and hysterical and bookish, but don't think that sums him up. No one pretends that Patrick Henry ever became a bookish person. Advena, bookish and unconventional, was regarded with dubiety. I am sorry for you, my child, but I am very poor, I care nothing for bookish rubbish, I shall not be there. They think Charles might not be learned and bookish enough to please Lady Russell, and that therefore, she persuaded Anne to refuse him. Most of the lodgers are respectable, educated, and even bookish people. Sometimes her English is daintily prim and bookish and captivating. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of bookish? Words that rhyme with bookish What is the adverb for bookish? What is the adjective for bookish? What is the noun for bookish? Translations for bookish Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words bookings booking bookies bookie bookful Booker T. Washington bookishly bookishness bookkeeper book-keeper bookkeeping book-keeping 7-letter Words Starting With b bo boo book booki bookis