Zolaesque

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.

Empire of Dreams Scott Eyman 2010

If this were one of those realistic Zolaesque stories I would describe the crick in the back that -- but let us hurry on.

The Man Upstairs and Other Stories 1928

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.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

One gets a Zolaesque picture of that aspect in Mr. Upton

An Englishman Looks at the World 1906

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.

Black Spirits and White A Book of Ghost Stories Ralph Adams Cram 1902

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 George Saintsbury 1889

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 George Saintsbury 1889

The disreputable line is Zolaesque bestiality, and forced, unreal, unlovely, and hysterical sensationalism.

Studies in Early Victorian Literature Frederic Harrison 1877

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.

NYT > Home Page By A. O. SCOTT 2011

He even responds with Zolaesque humility to the comparison itself.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Duncan White 2011