Obituaries are, by nature, more essayistic than most other news stories.

Naturally, in making the case for the essayistic novel, I don't mean to single it out as the only possible narrative form.

And he definitely broke his rule about being essayistic.

Both of these works apply Borges's essayistic style to largely imaginary subject matter.

It was first awarded in 1996 for a German-language essayistic or philosophical work.

My own preference is for two other varieties of her essayistic art, both prominently on display here.

A few passages nevertheless have a confession-booth, vaguely essayistic feel.

With Berliner, one sees a much more playful, essayistic thought process at work."

Besides poetry, Devkota also made significant contributions to the essayistic genre.

The texts themselves are essayistic, except that they are all fictional."

It seems apt that, in 30 years, Ephron's essayistic gaze has traveled only slightly north.

The stories are much more playful - shorter and seemingly slighter, anecdotal, almost essayistic.

The term "essayistic" was coined for this purpose.

One is to give the story a political context without bogging it down in essayistic debate and laborious historical background.

His new book is more varied, and less autobiographical and essayistic, than his previous work.

"The Waverly Gallery" isn't so much a proper play as an essayistic memoir given dramatic form.

One of the first essayistic works that made him famous to the wider public was the book Kako je mogoče?

Taleb's writing style is essayistic, mixing illustrative anecdotes and personal details with points of argument.

Yet even here, Stout is unable to resist straying into essayistic observations about Korea in the 1990's.

Each issue also presents a freestanding six to eight page photo portfolio, consisting of a photo report, conceptual or essayistic photography.

The writing is essayistic and uses the myth of Babel as a paradigm for connecting the linguistic and social practices.

Ms. Hochman's account is factual, not essayistic.

But the essayistic tone of the book gives the stories it contains an unreality closer to our sense of history than a thousand well-told tales.

Indeed, his great novel, "The Man Without Qualities," is a perfected instance of essayistic fiction.

Though Eliot's essayistic asides seem luxurious to some of us, there is no denying that generations of students have gagged on them.