How to Use diaristic in a Sentence

diaristic

adjective
  • Is there a kind of diaristic quality about this project?
    — New York Times, 2020-04-07
  • The film included diaristic footage that the filmmaker took in Politkovskaya’s home over many years.
    — Nancy Ramsey, BostonGlobe.com, 2022-03-30
  • On her latest project, Zahm is going all-in on diaristic songwriting.
    — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 2023-10-17
  • Other artists in the show make steady deposits into a diaristic record to track changes over time in the perceiving or perceived self.
    — Leah Ollman, latimes.com, 2018-04-09
  • Undoubtedly the work’s diaristic origins are a part of its appeal.
    — James Romm, WSJ, 2021-04-26
  • The songs that came from this time in my life were marked by their brutal honesty, unfiltered diaristic confessions and wild wistfulness.
    — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 2023-07-07
  • With a new name and a rush of listeners from around the world, Ulven released more of her diaristic music in spurts over the next couple of years.
    — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 2021-05-10
  • Memories and diaristic rambles get captured on a camcorder.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 2022-10-24
  • According to Vogue, Rose Gray’s new album sounds like diaristic entries of her past year.
    — Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 2024-12-25
  • Sleeveless starts with a diaristic account of New York, followed by a vignette in the third person, then a chunk of essays.
    — Zoë Hu, The New Republic, 2019-10-28
  • Plus, Wave’s gift for small details — an ex’s headband on the floor, an overdue bill in a blue envelope — ground his diaristic songs in the real world.
    — Chris Kelly, Washington Post, 2022-11-30
  • What the world first glimpsed in news clips was expanded into this diaristic account, at once humanistic and harrowing.
    — Steve Dollar, Los Angeles Times, 2023-11-30
  • There’s real familial intimacy, but not in a diaristic way.
    — Marissa R Moss, SPIN, 2022-04-13
  • These scenes have a soapbox didacticism completely at odds with the more diaristic qualities of the movie, the moments marked by the ache of memory.
    — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 2022-11-03
  • There is also a decidedly diaristic element at play in Zhang’s fictional work.
    — Olivia Aylmer, Vanity Fair, 2017-07-31
  • These moments insert an almost diaristic chatter into the usual silence of abstraction.
    — Matthew Bourbon, Dallas News, 2020-04-22
  • The camera follows these modern creatures low to the ground, with minimal narration, creating a roving, diaristic dog’s-eye view.
    — Kate Knibbs, Wired, 2020-09-07
  • My buddy Joe, for instance, described his most active group chat with two old friends as a place for free-form spouting of nonsense, a diaristic brain dump best used while waiting in line at the bagel place.
    — Matthew Schnipper, The Atlantic, 2025-01-06
  • That’s not to say Clairo strayed too far from the highly personal, diaristic and borderline stream-of-consciousness lyrics that first endeared her to her ever-growing fanbase.
    — Dan Hyman, chicagotribune.com, 2019-07-17
  • Lane fuses diaristic insight and journalistic inquiry for a look at a modern medical development told through the lens of self-discovery.
    — Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 2023-03-20
  • Latour's diaristic ballads and openness about her evolving identity and sexuality brought devoted masses of fans and followers her way.
    — Tamia Fowlkes, Journal Sentinel, 2024-06-28
  • Yet while Gray today is more about self-preservation than the wild nights of years past, Louder, Please is also, at points, a bracingly candid record, offering a diaristic account of the past few years of her life.
    — Liam Hess, Vogue, 2024-09-19
  • Taylor Swift's 10th studio album will return to the diaristic form of her pre-Folklore oeuvre, focusing on 13 midnights scattered throughout her life.
    — Ew Staff, EW.com, 2022-09-30
  • Despite its almost diaristic nature, the film is matter-of-fact enough to avoid dramatizing any further a rather harrowing narrative — the courage of its participants both identified and otherwise is evident enough.
    — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 2023-05-03
  • Collectively, the figurative works on show are real and unreal, a painterly layering of art history, personal diaristic references, the seen and unseen, the every day, the intimate and social.
    — Nargess Banks, Forbes, 2023-02-10
  • With its combination of diaristic iPhone videos, news reports, hotel security footage from the night of Ito’s rape and various audio recordings, the film is a visceral testimony of survival and recourse.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 2024-10-26
  • Singing over gruff hip-hop beats and ethereal minimalist ballads, the Argentine singer weaves a provocative tale of self-discovery with diaristic lyrics that excavate self-acceptance, intense romance and emotional maturity.
    — Pamela Avila, USA TODAY, 2024-12-19
  • American artist and writer Teju Cole frames his diaristic images—such as the photo Brazzaville (2013) which features a young boy grasping a railing above a body of rushing water—with short poetry and texts that examine memory.
    — Kate Sierzputowski, Chicago Reader, 2018-05-09

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