Wolfean

Who else has Wolfe's hand at style-that almost immediately recognizable Wolfean style, intelligent, complex, allusive, and above all meticulously phrased?

MIND MELD: Who Should Be The Next Grand Master? 2010

And Mr. McKeen has the Tom Wolfean tic of randomly adding italics to ensure you're not taking anything too seriously .

Wasting Away Again in Margaritaville Wayne Curtis 2011

She is said jock's girlfriend, a fact that marks her ascension to the top rung of social status on campus — always a prime Wolfean preoccupation — and she holds that distinction strictly on her own terms; she has restored the missing piece of her boyfriend's brain (turned him into a real student), and is, as Wolfe makes abundantly clear, the dominant partner in the relationship.

Cry Wolfe 2006

She is said jock's girlfriend, a fact that marks her ascension to the top rung of social status on campus — always a prime Wolfean preoccupation — and she holds that distinction strictly on her own terms; she has restored the missing piece of her boyfriend's brain (turned him into a real student), and is, as Wolfe makes abundantly clear, the dominant partner in the relationship.

Cry Wolfe 2006

Trim away the Wolfean excesses and it could be a desription of Nifong's motives and tactics.

Suddenly, the Duke lacrosse team rape charges are dropped. Ann Althouse 2006

The danger in refuting anti-materialism is in swinging to the other extreme, embracing consumerism and fabulist contrivance with a mindless Tom Wolfean "Yippee!"

Material Girl 2003

The danger in refuting anti-materialism is in swinging to the other extreme, embracing consumerism and fabulist contrivance with a mindless Tom Wolfean "Yippee!"

Material Girl 2003

The term “New Journalism” (the title of an anthology that Tom Wolfe co-edited in 1973) is typically brilliant Wolfean hyperbole and self-promotion.

Rambunctious Heyday of Gonzo, When Journalism Aspired to Art 2005

The term “New Journalism” (the title of an anthology that Tom Wolfe co-edited in 1973) is typically brilliant Wolfean hyperbole and self-promotion.

Rambunctious Heyday of Gonzo, When Journalism Aspired to Art 2005

As to what sort of critic you might want to be - a Wolfean 'celebratory adventurer' or a practitioner of Clute's 'excessive candour - I think that's a personal matter.

on gabe's critical thought 2003