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Seen as a whole, the films, nearly all period pieces, have a drawing-room flavor, a quasi-literary puzzle-box aesthetic that gets tired over the course of nearly eight hours.

From New York Times • Oct. 24, 2022

It was the final stop on a quasi-campaign, quasi-literary tour for Charlie Crist, the one-term Republican governor of Florida who’d become a Democrat and declared for his old job.

From Slate • Mar. 10, 2014

However great the writing – and the writing is addictively, breathtakingly great – you do have the sense of entering a quasi-literary version of The Jeremy Kyle Show.

From The Guardian • Apr. 28, 2013

Thatcher, in fact, leaves a quasi-literary legacy, much of it unintended, that's inescapable.

From The Guardian • Apr. 9, 2013

There can be no doubt among those who read much among literary and quasi-literary periodicals in English that there is a very considerable amount of high critical ability available.

From Mankind in the Making by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)