ellenesque
Collocations
5ADJ.
final
VERB + ELLENESQUE
settle, sort
ELLENESQUE + NOUN
composure, reflection, thing
PREP.
into
ADV.
such
Definitions
adj
Characteristic of someone named Ellen.
It had seemed to me sort of an Ellenesque thing to have happened, charming and delightful, though I had paid no attention to her belief that he was coming back.
A final Ellenesque reflection: “Such a lady is too expensive a product to maintain a falling empire.”
Characteristic of someone named Ellen.
Wilson tipped off her cousin Courtney Wilson, “That’s Ellen.” Degeneres^([sic]) looked up and gave Tiff “a very, very pleasant smile, kind of letting us know it was she.” To jar Courtney’s memory, Tiff lapsed into some Ellenesque silliness — dancing, slapping her tiny behind and singing “and booty slap, and booty slap. She did that booty-slap routine on some music awards show.”
If I had known that this innocuous-sounding PG-13 movie about a man falsely (I thought) accused of being gay was really an Ellenesque coming out with a huge message to teenagers that “hey, it’s OK!”, I wouldn’t have attended myself, let alone taken my 14-year-old son.
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3It had seemed to me sort of an Ellenesque thing to have happened, charming and delightful, though I had paid no attention to her belief that he was coming back.
WiktionaryA final Ellenesque reflection: “Such a lady is too expensive a product to maintain a falling empire.”
WiktionaryEllen did that thing she always does under stress: She touched her upper lip with the tip of her tongue, and she veiled her eyes, and she allowed her features to settle into that Ellenesque composure.
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