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Hemingwayesque
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English
Etymology
From en Hemingway esque.
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.
en 25 Dec 82 10 23 Gay Community News 6 Neil Miller Making Things Queer 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."
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