Sternian

English Etymology 1 From en Sterne -ian. Adjective Of or relating to Laurence Sterne, Irish novelist. en The Unitarian Review 36 448 December 1891 They were as compact as his college work had been Sternian in its discursiveness. en The Comic Diderot: A Reading of the Fictions 125 Stephen Werner 2000 So too does his account of the master's pocket watch, another Sternian acquisition. en Sentimental Narrative and the Social Order in France, 1760-1820 David J. Denby 2006 The final volume, moreover, contains a highly self-conscious, Sternian passage suggesting that the work was interrupted by some political misfortune befalling the narrator: the latter's uncle, Jean-Claude Ann'Quin Bredouille, has decided to burn the remaining memoirs and to return to his village. en Waiting for Pushkin: Russian Fiction in the Reign of Alexander I (1801-1825) Alessandra Tosi In the opening of Bednyi Leandr, for example, the humorous voice of the narrator engages in a synchronic reflection on the act of writing in the Sternian manner. 2006 Etymology 2 From en Stern ian. Adjective Of or relating to Howard Stern (born 1954), American radio and television personality. en Remote Control: Power, Cultures, and the World of Appearances Barbara Kruger 1994 In fact, it is this inherited refrain, blurted out in the same tone of voice, that serves as a kind of mantra for the entire Sternian enterprise: a perpetually indicting bee in Howard's bonnet (and that hairdo is definitely a bonnet). en Stage Dust: A Critic's Cultural Scrapbook from the 1990s 124 Charles Marowitz 2001 He wants to see what's bouncing around inside your blouse or dangling down your inside trouser leg and to refuse him is to take refuge in a modesty that, in a Sternian universe, is almost unbecoming. en Brill's Content 4 100 2001 But they add two other elements to their mix: a healthy helping of Howard Sternian locker-room talk and, much more important, a startlingly egalitarian ethic of listener participation. Anagrams en aeinnrst Ernstian Tiernans Trannies entrains trannies en eponyms