novelettish

He goes on to explain himself by referring to the film as "novelettish" (it is based on Daphne DuMaurier's 1938 gothic novel), throwing it in with a tradition of "feminine" literature popular at that time.

PopMatters 2010

Winegarten develops a faintly novelettish style to cover the gaps in her sources.

The Great de Staël Holmes, Richard 2009

Which brings us to the now-notorious Chapter Six, "The Night in Question," the memoir's money shot — the reconstruction of the double homicide as siphoned through Simpson's hazy recall and his ghostwriter's novelettish imagination.

James Wolcott reviews O.J. Simpson's "If I Did It" Wolcott, James 2007

And I just started writing stuff. .not angsty stuff. .more like novelettish stuff.

rouflaquette Diary Entry rouflaquette 2005

If we can accept the basic truth of this highly novelistic, sometimes novelettish, account, it has extraordinary interest both as a psychological document of a woman who is said to have had sixteen personalities and as a moving human narrative.

Crazy Mixed-up Kids Harding, D.W. 1973

It hints at a novelettish narrative rather than delving into character; the leading comic actress of her day, in a satin robe lined with fur, kid-gloved and carrying a heavy muff, she steals through a summer landscape as though to keep some chilly nocturnal assignation in which we - because she looks so sweetly back at us -

Evening Standard - Home 2010

The novelettish third person is a nice dramatic touch: Freud’s Dora had nothing on Elsie in the girlish-hysteria department.

Home Alone 2006

The novelettish third person is a nice dramatic touch: Freud’s Dora had nothing on Elsie in the girlish-hysteria department.

Home Alone 2006

The novelettish third person is a nice dramatic touch: Freud’s Dora had nothing on Elsie in the girlish-hysteria department.

Home Alone 2006