Faulknerian
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of Faulknerian
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The Faulknerian style’s weakest imitators simply view it as a license to slather adjectives and metaphors all over the page.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2019
I had to fight a sense of creeping claustrophobia as I read it, and its Faulknerian sentences, which can run on for half a page or more, sometimes felt like a literary endurance test.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 20, 2019
Her memoir and three novels — produced in the span of less than a decade — feel hewn from these grand Faulknerian verities.
From New York Times ● Sep. 5, 2017
But the boys of Sigma Alpha Epsilon are Faulknerian prisms compared to the female characters in “Straight Flush.”
From Salon ● Jun. 1, 2013
But there is no Faulknerian Snopes in O’Connor’s fiction.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 22, 2001
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