Boswell
noun
James, 1740–95, Scottish author: biographer of Samuel Johnson.
Boswellian
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a word derived from
Boswell.
Example Sentences
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Boswellian vignettes of the maestro and his artistic contemporaries.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 11, 2022
Like the two earlier miscellanies, this volume is Boswellian in its devotion to its subject and in its near-biblical bulk.
From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2017
But let’s also say it’s a Boswellian world in which the Nats are, say, 25-7 on May 11.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 19, 2012
“Everyone cried,” said Ramona Singer, one of the housewives whose lives are chronicled in the Boswellian “The Real Housewives New York City” on Bravo.
From New York Times ● Sep. 18, 2010
Some days afterwards, another conversation took place, which has a certain celebrity in Boswellian literature.
From Samuel Johnson by Sir Leslie Stephen
