Example Sentences

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Ms. Rizer begins in a peasant shift of woven jute and ends, after seven layers and 154 pounds of increasing Tolstoyan grandeur, cocooned in a wintry mantle of taupe.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 1, 2025

There were Tolstoyan scenes of soldiers picking cotton.

From New York Times • May 11, 2020

Bulky enough in an ordinary edition, the large print is stupendous — but there is something Tolstoyan about its girth.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 21, 2018

Kenneth Lonergan’s storytelling perspective has a grand Tolstoyan sweep to it.

From Slate • Dec. 8, 2016

Her son, the teenage Tolstoyan, believed that wealth was shameful, corrupting, inherently evil—which is ironic because Chris was a natural-born capitalist with an uncanny knack for making a buck.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer