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essayistic

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es·say·is·tic  (s-stk)
adj.
1. Of or relating to an essay or a writer of essays.
2. Resembling an essay in nature or quality.
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essayistic
adjessayistisch


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Thomas further suggests that only the first paragraph in this section on the Big Meeting is "acceptable for fiction; the rest is essayistic writing, information, which, to be successful fiction, should be implicit in the interaction of the characters .
Yet in his attempts to mediate between concept and sensation, the general and the particular, his essayistic cultural critique shared with those of Robert Musil, Benjamin, and Bloch an ideational-sensual focus on the explicitly modern "ordinary" phenomena of the contemporary life-world.
An interpretation of Bach's music as performed by Yo-Yo Ma, Rozema's voracious quest for context and knowledge results in an essayistic film that elucidates Bach as an artist.
 
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