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Perhaps because of its origins in the rhetorical and dialectical training of young academicians, the literary paradox is a belle-lettristic form particularly hospitable to “ideas.”
LITERARY PARADOX ROSALIE L. COLIE 1968
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Onward Christian mystic, making like Dean Swift, waxing belle-lettristic, when you lose your drift.
Know-All Jones, D.A.N. 1966
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There are full and learned Notes, though references are given according to the tiresome belle-lettristic convention and there is no bibliography.
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I know all you belle-lettristic types don’t like to think about anything but Art, but units-shifted is a factor that matters.
Why Science Fiction Is Dying And Fantasy Fiction Is The Future 2009
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