Hawthornesque

American  

[haw-thawr-nesk] / ˌhɔ θɔrˈnɛsk /

1. characteristic of or resembling the style, manner, or subjects of the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne.

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Etymology

Origin of Hawthornesque

Hawthorne + -esque

Example Sentences

And I do mean significant — everything from “Revival,” a scary Hawthornesque novel by horrormeister Stephen King, to a slim book called “The Meaning of Existence” by world renowned biologist E.O.

From Seattle Times

"The Minister's Black Veil" is an example of the peculiar Hawthornesque gloom, which the children would not understand or by ill luck would understand, and suffer the consequent dangerous depression.

From Project Gutenberg

The Morris prose style modulates effortlessly between a deadpan Mark Twainish narrative of bizarre situations�Tom Sawyer as Easy Rider�and a grave Hawthornesque moral allegory.

From Time Magazine Archive

The jacket blurb describes him as "Hawthornesque"; and indeed he is an energetic scruple collector.

From Time Magazine Archive

It shows some niceties of selection, and the style is neat; I even fancy something individual in the choice of the words sanctior nec beatior, as applied to the republic, and a distinctly Hawthornesque distinction in the fulgor tantum fuit sine fervore; though a relic of this kind should not be examined too closely, and claims the same exemption that one gives to Shelley's school-compelled verses, In Horologium.

From Project Gutenberg