Meaning of New-Yorkian | Babel Free

Definitions

Rare spelling of New Yorkian.

alt-of, rare

Examples

“Has any intimation been forwarded of the[…]of this “tall-talker” to New-Yorkian shores?”

“The very month that this tribute of the leading English art review⟳ appeared, the readers of a New York journal were told that it would be pleasant to feel⟳ sure that American art as a whole was beginning to take⟳ on some sort⟳ of national complexion: “[…] The subjects they choose⟳ are rarely American; they take⟳ little pains to reproduce⟳ American landscapes or types of character; they pay⟳ little attention to American historical episodes. They are Parisian, rather than New-Yorkian.””

“Every smart New-Yorkian song begins anywhere, but surely ends with the Bowery.”

“After his early Ohio experience⟳, which finds a reflex mainly in his autobiography, the scenes of his fiction, initially Venetian, maturely Bostonian, autumnally New-Yorkian, dispersedly and interspersedly European and American, copy⟳ his migrations as precisely as if his imagination were a part of his luggage.”

“The Doctor’s House. James Liddy. Salmon. 142 pp € 15 pb 21 cm 1-903392-39-x. After anecdotes and snippets from the poet’s Wexford childhood (he was born 1934) about his dispensary doctor father and New-Yorkian mother, the real show⟳ begins when he hits the big smoke⟳ for college days and apprenticeship among the McDaid’s mob.”

“Alexander Chervinsky makes his works by balancing on the intersection of New-Yorkian aestheticism and spiritual impulses inherent only to Tolstoy’s and Dostoevsky’s characters.”

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