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Lomanesque
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English
Etymology
From en Loman esque.
Adjective
Characteristic of Willy Loman, an aging salesman in suicidal decline, in Arthur Miller's 1949 play Death of a Salesman.
en 2006 Sharon Kurtzman Cosmo's Deli 12 Renny works on the tenth floor and this morning she navigates the maze of cubicles like a well trained lab rat, her face set in a Lomanesque expression of one continuing to work long after the job has lost its excitement.
en 2013 Lawrence R. Samuel The American Middle Class: A Cultural History 26 Rather incredibly, Mills recommended that white-collar Americans adopt a kind of Lomanesque hopelessness and despair, as such a perspective at least acknowledged the unfortunate realities of being middle class in postwar America.
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