Gatsbyesque

It detailed a lifestyle so extraordinarily profligate that not even the description of "Gatsbyesque" could suffice.

james mirtle 2008

The sense that a Gatsbyesque Age of Optimism had come to a close was compounded by a sour turn in the economy and the bursting of the tech bubble in 2000.

Zero-Sum Future Gideon Rachman 2011

The sense that a Gatsbyesque Age of Optimism had come to a close was compounded by a sour turn in the economy and the bursting of the tech bubble in 2000.

Zero-Sum Future Gideon Rachman 2011

He seemed, in many ways, like a man from another time, a Gatsbyesque figure who glided through a world of old money, private clubs and pedigree horses, his family name emblazoned on Ivy League halls.

POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: September 16, 2009 2009

It detailed a lifestyle so extraordinarily profligate that not even the description of “Gatsbyesque” could suffice.

Samueli's partner and the 'sex cave' James Mirtle 2008

It detailed a lifestyle so extraordinarily profligate that not even the description of “Gatsbyesque” could suffice.

Archive 2008-09-01 James Mirtle 2008

On alternate weekends, he plays cricket on Staten Island, the sole white man in a cricket club that includes Chuck Ramkissoon, a Trinidadian wiseacre, whose outsize dreams of building a cricket stadium in the city represent a Gatsbyesque commitment to the American Dream/human possibility/narrative with which Hans himself is struggling to keep faith.

Two Paths for the Novel Smith, Zadie 2008

It even has its own literary adjective: Gatsbyesque.

Do As I Say, Not As I Do 2007

For the rest of his life, Michaelis writes, Schulz "would pose as the unappeasable Gatsbyesque lover of the golden — or, in his case, red-headed — girl."

A Dark and Stormy Life 2007

Displaying old copies of largely substanceless books only reduces them to the status of tchatchke, which is interesting from an academic point of view, but sort of terrifying from a Gatsbyesque the-pages-aren't-even-cut point of view.

Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2007