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belles-lettres
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belles-lettres (bĕl-lĕ`trə) [from the French for literature, literally "fine letters"], literature that is appreciated for the beauty, artistry, and originality of its style and tone rather than for its ideas and informational content. Earlier the term was synonymous with literature, referring particularly to fiction, poetry, drama, criticism, and essays. However, belletristic literature has come to mean light, artificial writing and essays extolling the beauties of literature.
belles-lettres
literary works, esp essays and poetry, valued for their aesthetic rather than their informative or moral content


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May 2009) Pravda Enlightened commentary on the Obama economic renaissance from a belletristic Russian at Pravda, now staunchly neocon: It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent [sic] into Marxism is happening with breath taking [sic] speed, against the back drop [sic] of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.
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