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Hemingwayesque

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Adj.1.Hemingwayesque - in the manner of Ernest Hemingway


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Descriptions of her village slip easily into loping, Hemingwayesque sentences tinged with provincial pride: "We had earthworks going back for two hundred years, and a shipyard with more than a hundred workers and a lunch-break siren that could be heard all over the town at noon.
Pickford, 46, a jaunty, wiry man who doesn't really resemble the Hemingwayesque character conjured up by his hobbies of big-game hunting and ocean fishing, doesn't normally deal with the racing side of Chapel Forge's output, leaving that to his company manager.
His Kenyan connections make him a Hemingwayesque character, boisterously virile - although, unlike Hemingway stalking big game, his obsession is protecting imperilled species rather than gunning them down.
 
 
 
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