essayistic
adjective
es·say·is·tic
ˌe-(ˌ)sā-ˈi-stik 
Examples of essayistic in a Sentence
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In it, the stand-up comedian and recent Emmy winner presents essayistic histories of the subcultures that shaped him, drawing parallels, both said and unsaid, between six seemingly disparate communities.
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Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 30 Jan. 2024
In these works, the director foregrounded an essayistic narrative, using words to guide viewers through the brutality of Western civilization.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Sep. 2023
Combining penetrating interviews with his father, poetic meditations on the Black bourgeoisie, and his old Super 8 footage from the sixties, the documentary is an essayistic excavation of his family’s fraught history, as well as the enduring symbolism of their family home in Oak Bluffs.
—Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2022
His fifth book is part memoir, part journalism and part essayistic exploration of the sport.
—Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2023
The prose itself in Wolfish is brisk and essayistic, and makes for a compelling read.
—Colin Dickey, The New Republic, 31 Mar. 2023
The novel’s title seems in part a nod to J. M. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello, a similarly essayistic novel, and while less dry than the work of Coetzee (whose great gifts do not include a sense of humor), the book is less engaging than, well, much of Julian Barnes.
—Claire Messud, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
In this essayistic follow-up to his 2016 book The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, Amitav Ghosh sees the seeds of our climate emergency in the violent 17th-century occupation of the nutmeg plantations of the Banda Islands in Indonesia.
—Amy Brady, Scientific American, 9 Sep. 2021
And the movie—an essayistic film that highlights the role of women’s political labor and organizing emanating from factories in Lebanon in the 1970s, in parallel with events from the recent past—did just that, in small sessions run by community groups.
—Suyin Haynes, Time, 1 Mar. 2021
Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 30 Jan. 2024
In these works, the director foregrounded an essayistic narrative, using words to guide viewers through the brutality of Western civilization.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Sep. 2023
Combining penetrating interviews with his father, poetic meditations on the Black bourgeoisie, and his old Super 8 footage from the sixties, the documentary is an essayistic excavation of his family’s fraught history, as well as the enduring symbolism of their family home in Oak Bluffs.
—Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2022
His fifth book is part memoir, part journalism and part essayistic exploration of the sport.
—Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2023
The prose itself in Wolfish is brisk and essayistic, and makes for a compelling read.
—Colin Dickey, The New Republic, 31 Mar. 2023
The novel’s title seems in part a nod to J. M. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello, a similarly essayistic novel, and while less dry than the work of Coetzee (whose great gifts do not include a sense of humor), the book is less engaging than, well, much of Julian Barnes.
—Claire Messud, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
In this essayistic follow-up to his 2016 book The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, Amitav Ghosh sees the seeds of our climate emergency in the violent 17th-century occupation of the nutmeg plantations of the Banda Islands in Indonesia.
—Amy Brady, Scientific American, 9 Sep. 2021
And the movie—an essayistic film that highlights the role of women’s political labor and organizing emanating from factories in Lebanon in the 1970s, in parallel with events from the recent past—did just that, in small sessions run by community groups.
—Suyin Haynes, Time, 1 Mar. 2021
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