newspapery

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The Associated Press gave him the all-too-shiny "College Basketball Player Of The Year" award, which will look all professional and newspapery next to the Naismith Trophy he also snapped up this year.

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  • The Associated Press gave him the all-too-shiny "College Basketball Player Of The Year" award, which will look all professional and newspapery next to the Naismith Trophy he also snapped up this year. —  All articles at Blogcritics
  • From {540} his facility, his openness to external impressions of scenery and costume and his habit of turning these at once into the service of his pen, it results that there is something "newspapery" and superficial about most of his prose. —  Brief History of English and American Literature
  • So sordid, so commonplace, so newspapery, so -- just what everything in life is -- when we might have expected for the dollar and a quarter expended on this pound of wood pulp and ink, -- something less dull than a magazine article; something about a motor-car and a girl with a mischievous face whom a Russian baron seeks to carry away by force and is barely thwarted by the brave American college youth dashing in pursuit with a new eighty h. p., etc., etc. Or at least if one must have a railroad in a novel (when every one knows just what a railroad is), give us a private car and the lovely daughter of the —  Together
  • "newspapery" and superficial about most of his prose. —  Brief History of English and American Literature
  • Roy watched him savouring the chicken and peas; discussing the decay of falling in love, its reasons and remedies; and thought, for the hundredth time, what a splendid old boy he was; so big and breezy, nothing bookish or newspapery about him. —  Far to Seek A Romance of England and India
 

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