Hemingway

English

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Hemmingway

Proper noun

Hemingway

A surname.
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961), American writer and journalist.
- 1962, Arthur Miller, “The Bored and the Violent”, in Herbert Gold, editor, First Person Singular: Essays for the Sixties‎^[1], New York: Dial, published 1963, page 181:
  […] few of these boys know how to fight alone, and hardly any without a knife or a gun. They are not to be equated with matadors or boxers or Hemingway heroes. They are dangerous pack hounds who will not even expose themselves singly in the outfield.

Verb

Hemingway (third-person singular simple present Hemingways, present participle Hemingwaying, simple past and past participle Hemingwayed)

To speak, write or behave in a Hemingwayesque manner.
- 1979, The New York Times Book Review - Volume 1; Volume 84, page iii:
  But there is no literary law that says thai — to set forth these beauties — the writers must first excel in the art of Hemingwaying.
- 2000, Hans Schoots, Living Dangerously: A Biography of Joris Ivens, page 131:
  Ivens concluded his account with a remark that out-Hemingwayed Hemingway: 'I know that money is hard to make but dying is not easy either.
- 2010, Sasa Stanisic, How The Soldier Repairs The Gramophone:
  That just-a-moment had hardly died away before Father turned and Hemingwayed Bogoljub so forcefully that the tobacconist was sent flying against the bookshelves.
- 2018, Betty Webb, The Otter of Death:
  And as it turned out, he'd Hemingwayed his so-called past. Those tales he told about backpacking the two-thousand-mile-long Appalachian Trail while fighting off bears and wolves? The time at Pismo Beach when he punched out a shark to rescue a lifeguard? The stories were interesting the first few times I heard them but they paled with the retelling.
To study, or talk about, Ernest Hemingway.
- 2012, Paula McLain, The Paris Wife:
  After Hemingway's death in 1961, he was bombarded with questions about the author and finally asked a reporter to let it be known that he was “Hemingwayed out!”
- 2012, Joe Haldeman, The Hemingway Hoax:
  Lena knew more about the missing stories than 98 percent of the people who Hemingwayed for a living.
- 2017, Nelson DeMille, The Cuban Affair:
  I said, “I'm a little Hemingwayed out, but we can go to Floridita after dinner if you'd like.”

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