Hawthornesque
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Origin of Hawthornesque
Example Sentences
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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 • Sep. 10, 2014
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
"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 Literature in the Elementary School by MacClintock, Porter Lander
It is a device frequently and freely practised, and so characteristically American, and especially Hawthornesque, that it should not have been overlooked for even a moment.
From A Study of Hawthorne by Lathrop, George Parsons
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