What is "jamesian"

Usage examples of "jamesian".

Ellen Jamesians, and he suppressed a momentary flame of angerthat another creepy Ellen Jamesian was introducing herself to him.

That even brought a small soundperhaps a gruntfrom the troubled Ellen Jamesian on stage.

Ellen Jamesian in the dirty-white Saab, Whitcomb claimed, had given Garp the urgency necessary to make him write again.

Some of them, of course, went on trying to be Ellen Jamesians in a world that soon forgot what an Ellen Jamesian was.

One Ellen Jamesian wrote Ellen James that she stopped being an Ellen Jamesian when she asked a little girl if she knew what an Ellen Jamesian was.

Inside Lamb House she wondered how a mystery in which several people have achingly endless, convoluted conversations over tea and biscuits, all of them knowing there was that body hi the solarium but, with their Jamesian sensibilities, making such oblique references that no one knew if anyone knew if he or she knew.

My own was a more complex transgression, for I had taken joy in the doom of others, I perhaps had even engineered the doom of others, but even that was a subtle Jamesian sort of thing, in the last analysis fairly insubstantial.

And I used the reverse of the old Jamesian principle that, if you pretend to be something or to like something, you will be that something.

But the Jamesian manner proves less easy to master than he had thought.

I feel like turning back and writing a Jamesian preface on the problems of a romancer turned chronicler.

Again, there is that Jamesian note of seriousness and jokiness lying unresolved together.

It is the classic Jamesian position: self-congratulatory, vain, and perhaps, in the end, surprisingly, and against the odds, rather wise.