bookish

• “The work of narrative to pose a problem and then solve it with perfect closure is known as the rescuing function, and I guess that when we needed rescue, it was there in bookish form, even if not there abundantly in reality.”

  Agatha Christie and Guilt « Tales from the Reading Room

• “March 16, 2006 18: 49 tuba: simon bookish is great. so are his remixes, esp the grizzly bear one, whom you all should really write about one of these days .... phiiliip's remix is fun too.”

  Feeling a bit Bookish? (Music (For Robots))

• “Literature is no longer "bookish" -- but practical, social, propagandist.”

  Studies in Early Victorian Literature

• “Avoid what are called bookish, inkhorn, terms; shun words that have passed out of use, and those that have no footing in the language -- foreign words, words newly coined, and slang.”

  Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition

• “He is not what may be called a bookish preacher -- that is to say, his sermons do not smell of the lamb.”

  Life of Charles T. Walker, D.D., ("The Black Spurgeon.") Pastor Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, New York City

• “Like Paris handsome [34] and like Hector brave, but as pious as Aeneas; "a rich fellow enough," with blood hopelessly blue and morals spotlessly copy-bookish -- in other words, a Sir Charles”

  A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800

• “As always the 'scientists' are described as bookish nerds who bore policy makers and reporters with p-values.”

  ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science

• “Bogosian called the bookish president-elect "in the broadest sense of the word, a reader.”

  Entertainment News: CBSNews.com

• “Taylor is creating extreme stress and mental abuse in that segment of the population known as the bookish Calvinist and / or Bibliophile.”

  internetmonk.com

• “I wouldn't really classify her as "bookish," either.”

  On Private Calls, Top Obama Advisers Expressing Real Worry That Complacency Will Damage Fundraising, Turnout

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