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- adjective Of or relating to Thomas Wolfe (1900–1938),
American novelist .
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Examples
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Who else has Wolfe's hand at style-that almost immediately recognizable Wolfean style, intelligent, complex, allusive, and above all meticulously phrased?
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And Mr. McKeen has the Tom Wolfean tic of randomly adding italics to ensure you're not taking anything too seriously .
Wasting Away Again in Margaritaville Wayne Curtis 2011
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She is said jock's girlfriend, a fact that marks her ascension to the top rung of social status on campus — always a prime Wolfean preoccupation — and she holds that distinction strictly on her own terms; she has restored the missing piece of her boyfriend's brain (turned him into a real student), and is, as Wolfe makes abundantly clear, the dominant partner in the relationship.
Cry Wolfe 2006
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She is said jock's girlfriend, a fact that marks her ascension to the top rung of social status on campus — always a prime Wolfean preoccupation — and she holds that distinction strictly on her own terms; she has restored the missing piece of her boyfriend's brain (turned him into a real student), and is, as Wolfe makes abundantly clear, the dominant partner in the relationship.
Cry Wolfe 2006
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Trim away the Wolfean excesses and it could be a desription of Nifong's motives and tactics.
Suddenly, the Duke lacrosse team rape charges are dropped. Ann Althouse 2006
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The danger in refuting anti-materialism is in swinging to the other extreme, embracing consumerism and fabulist contrivance with a mindless Tom Wolfean "Yippee!"
Material Girl 2003
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The danger in refuting anti-materialism is in swinging to the other extreme, embracing consumerism and fabulist contrivance with a mindless Tom Wolfean "Yippee!"
Material Girl 2003
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The term “New Journalism” (the title of an anthology that Tom Wolfe co-edited in 1973) is typically brilliant Wolfean hyperbole and self-promotion.
Rambunctious Heyday of Gonzo, When Journalism Aspired to Art 2005
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The term “New Journalism” (the title of an anthology that Tom Wolfe co-edited in 1973) is typically brilliant Wolfean hyperbole and self-promotion.
Rambunctious Heyday of Gonzo, When Journalism Aspired to Art 2005
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As to what sort of critic you might want to be - a Wolfean 'celebratory adventurer' or a practitioner of Clute's 'excessive candour - I think that's a personal matter.
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