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- adjective In the
literary orthematic style of theFrench writer Émile Zola (1840-1902).
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Examples
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The film is strong in theme, unrelentingly grim in execution—von Stroheim would have taken a human life in order to direct the Zolaesque story.
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If this were one of those realistic Zolaesque stories I would describe the crick in the back that -- but let us hurry on.
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Most of these show more or less of an inclination to indulge in naturalistic methods of the French order without, however, descending to the estremes of the Zolaesque method.
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One gets a Zolaesque picture of that aspect in Mr. Upton
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By this time we had drunk more or less, and Duchesne launched into a photographic and Zolaesque account of the only time (as he said) when he was possessed of the panic of fear; namely, one night many years ago, when he was locked by accident into the dissecting-room of the Loucine, together with several cadavers of a rather unpleasant nature.
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Cobbettist Apocalypse, smeared with Zolaesque grime and lighted up with flashes, or rather flares, of more than Zolaesque brilliancy.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
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Goncourtian and Zolaesque principle to the lowest terms of the absurd.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
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The disreputable line is Zolaesque bestiality, and forced, unreal, unlovely, and hysterical sensationalism.
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It is only a small exaggeration to say that the six movies I've named constitute an epic of decline, a sprawling, Zolaesque series of narratives whose common theme - discernible only in retrospect - is the crisis of American civic liberalism, as witnessed in its 20th century capital, New York.
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He even responds with Zolaesque humility to the comparison itself.
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