Litterateur

When the public is eager and interested, reviewers must minister to its wants; and the genuine 'litterateur' is too much in the habit of acquiring his knowledge from the book he judges -- as the ❋ Thomas Henry Huxley (1860)

By spelling "litterateur" and "basilica," Christopher Smith, of Monett, became the champion of the 2009 Bee - a fifth grade student from Trinity Lutheran School in Freistatt. ❋ Kevin McClintock (2009)

The French litterateur and gourmand Antoine Désaugiers once expressed the hope that his epitaph would read: "Here lies the first poet ever to die of indigestion." ❋ Unknown (2011)

I had no idea that the Barn Man had become such a litterateur in his years of obscurity. ❋ Con Chapman (2011)

Diarist George Templeton Strong described Mansfield as a "small litterateur who devoted himself to the concoction of dish-water little novels." ❋ Edward J. Renehan Jr. (2010)

The Principal Secretary on the occasion also felicitated erudite poet and versatile litterateur Mr. Arjun Dev Majboor and illustrious Kashmiri musician and artist Mr. Krishan Langoo. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Hosken subsequently, as Charles Granville, litterateur and widower, married Mrs. Caroline Leontine Fawcett at Portobello near Edinburgh. ❋ Steve (2009)

"Every one has heard of Alexis Soyer, the celebrated chef de cuisine, ... [a] litterateur, as well as the greatest living master of the mageric art" (325). ❋ Unknown (2007)

Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has deeply condoled the death of renowned Dogri litterateur, Prof. Ram Nath Shastri, who passed away here last evening. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Prof. Saifuddin Soz, the Union Minister of Water Resources has expressed his deep condolences over the passing away of veteran Dogri writer, author and litterateur Prof. Ram Nath Shastri in Jammu late last night. ❋ Unknown (2009)

So proud of this wine are the Hungarians that there is a reference to it in verse 3 of the National Anthem, the words being written by the well-known poet and litterateur of the early nineteenth century, Ferenc Kölcsey. ❋ Helen (2008)

Like some other chroniclers of early 20th-century society, Saki (1870-1916; real name, Hector Munro) is too easily dismissed as a minor litterateur, a man who made light comedy of a cloistered and prejudiced world that is no longer familiar to us. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Thirty years ago he repatriated himself from the life of a drunken and erratic litterateur in New York City to a raiser of wheat, quarter-horses and children on an organic farm-ranch in his native state. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The litterateur responded strongly against such malicious “campaign against” of the city police. ❋ Abhay N (2007)

It may be mentioned that the litterateur had gone to Singur on 27 September last year to attend a public hearing gana sunani organised by Sanhati Udyog, a forum of human rights activists. ❋ Abhay N (2007)

I will ask the police commissioner to apologise for calling us sympathisers of the extremist outfit, the litterateur told The Statesman over phone. ❋ Abhay N (2007)

At different moments during '' Glory Days "Springsteen was variously perceived as a giant of liberalism, a Catholic shaman carrying the nation's pain, a hip-swivelling litterateur, and an average Joe writ large." ❋ Unknown (2005)

KOLKATA, July 3: A mass organisation opposing Singur “land grab” and Nandigram “genocide” under leadership of eminent persons like litterateur Mahasweta Devi and educationist Mr Sunanda Sanyal have been termed as “frontal organisation” of CPI-Maoist by the city police today. ❋ Abhay N (2007)

Take Ruth, i.vv. 8 to 13, and imagine how those pronouns come in; it is exquisitely elegant, and makes the mouth of the litterateur to water. ❋ Unknown (2005)