Barthelme
[ bahr-thuhl-mey, ‐tl-mee ]
/ ˈbɑr θəlˌmeɪ, ‐tl mi /
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noun
Donald, 1931–89, U.S. short-story writer and novelist.
his brother, Frederick, born 1943, U.S. short-story writer and novelist.
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The rainy weather could not ________ my elated spirits on my graduation day.
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Example sentences from the Web for Barthelme
This Regular version sometimes sounds like the near sequiturs of Gertrude Stein or her clever admirer Donald Barthelme.
Very dry, precise, sort of magical—what Donald Barthelme used to call the little nut hard word.