Meaning of Lomanesque | Babel Free

Definitions

Characteristic of Willy Loman, an aging salesman in suicidal decline, in Arthur Miller's 1949 play Death of a Salesman.

Examples

“Renny works on the tenth floor and this morning she navigates the maze of cubicles like a well trained lab rat, her face set in a Lomanesque expression of one continuing to work long after the job has lost its excitement.”

“Rather incredibly, Mills recommended that white-collar Americans adopt a kind of Lomanesque hopelessness and despair, as such a perspective at least acknowledged the unfortunate realities of being middle class in postwar America.”

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