How to Use writerly in a Sentence

writerly

adjective

• In the midst of his grief, Hsu steadily builds a writerly self.
  — M.j. Andersen, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Feb. 2023
• Or just the writerly contrivance of their rhyming names?
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Jan. 2022
• Too bad the writerly voice here is not as distinct, trying to say too many things at once.
  — Tomris Laffly, Variety, 22 Jan. 2023
• Life is heavy, and the writerly task of conveying its truths can be equally weighty.
  — Oliver Munday, The Atlantic, 22 Aug. 2022
• And who better to present you with writerly gift ideas than staffers at a magazine?
  — Sarah Madaus, SELF, 8 Sep. 2022
• And Simon brought a writerly flair to smoothly rendered songs about romance among the well-heeled.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2022
• This accounts in part for his use of pseudonyms, which was not just a writerly device.
  — Christopher Beha, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2020
• Hardy’s gotten some of that writerly nuance into his hits for Wallen.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2023
• Such writerly panache is the true saving grace of Mr Orange’s chronicle.
  — The Economist, 5 July 2018
• And soon Elizabeth starts doing weird things with rocks, a touch of mysticism that just looks like writerly quirk run amok.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 5 June 2019
• As DaCosta's script points out (in language that sounds a bit too writerly to come out of Deb's mouth), Ollie is a doer, not a hoper.
  — John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Apr. 2018
• Later, her out-of-nowhere substance abuse strikes the viewer as a writerly attempt to find a new, more punishing lens through which to see a character.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 9 Dec. 2021
• Since her writerly method in this opus is more sectional in nature, her approach is an ideal foil for Lewis’s — making the CD worth the wait for its arrival via snail mail.
  — New York Times, 15 Oct. 2020
• Its black-and-white line drawings are charming, and the writerly descriptions spout history, humor and wit.
  — Amy Merrick, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2022
• What propels the reader through these biographies is not only these authors’ writerly talents but the sheer drama of Ted Kennedy’s saga.
  — David Greenberg, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2023
• While many musicians disparage the writerly urge to put a label on everything, Sanneh says his book is in some ways a defense of the idea of genres.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Oct. 2021
• The novelist’s scrupulous vagueness flows from a writerly decorum that Borrero doesn’t appear to share.
  — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2021
• Wild Reads is a club that will extend Cheryl’s readerly influence in addition to her writerly one.
  — oregonlive, 1 June 2021
• There are, thankfully, different kinds of stories in this collection than Martin’s go-to story of the scruffy writerly type who may or may not be in the midst of screwing up his life.
  — Ryu Spaeth, The New Republic, 9 July 2020
• Toni Morrison performed the classic writerly move of working on her novels before her children woke in the morning.
  — Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 8 May 2022
• Amis is Amis: Beneath an autumnal maturity of mind beats the still-atavistic writerly ego.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2020
• Particularly noteworthy is the writerly flair that’s actively present in the scripting, rich with a strong sense of imagery.
  — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 5 Jan. 2021
• Switching from pen and paper to stylus and screen can feel like a betrayal of your writerly sensibilities.
  — Zoë Hannah, Popular Mechanics, 20 Jan. 2023
• Here, Riggs waxes poetic on this final installment and tells EW a little bit about his very writerly process.
  — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 24 Feb. 2021
• Between the covers of these books, readers will find an enormously diverse set of subjects and an array of writerly moods, from the whimsical to the deadly serious.
  — Julia Schimautz, The Atlantic, 13 Dec. 2022
• He is mired in romantic and writerly self-doubt and spends his days corresponding with women who are similarly in limbo.
  — The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021
• With few exceptions, writerly ambition tends not to operate at a grand level.
  — Geoff Dyer, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2018
• At 100 minutes, the film is spare on blunt character arcs and writerly dialogue but rich in its director’s confident vision.
  — Colin Covert, kansascity, 31 May 2018
• While this may have seemed like a little bit of writerly contrivance on the part of showrunner Mike White, a fan theory actually speculates that Greg and Quentin really know each other.
  — Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 5 Dec. 2022
• English has provided a precise term of art to describe the writerly condition: submission.
  — Stephen Marche, The Atlantic, 21 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 17 Aug 2024