Meaning of Thurberesque | Babel Free

Definitions

Characteristic of James Thurber or the world depicted in his cartoons and plays.

Examples

“Winch (1958)", for example, divided families into four random groupings varying from the wife-dominated 'Thurberesque' marital relationship to the husband-dominated 'Ibsenian'.”

“It highlights and emphasizes what it wishes to in order to create a Thurberesque vision of reason in conflict with the irrational.”

“There is a neurological condition, Charles Bonnet Syndrome, causing Thurberesque hallucinations.”

“A bow tie apparently proclaims a man to be witty, brilliant, perhaps a chap of Thurberesque genius.”

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