rowlingesque

Example Sentences

• "Part of the fun of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books are the names she comes up with; the author said in a recent online chat that she’s amassed dozens of notebooks where she jotted down unusual names she saw or thought up. Here are the Rowlingesque meanings behind a few:[…]"
• "[…]Scamander’s account is clearly rooted in the ancient descriptions, with some Rowlingesque revisions in the role of Herpo the Foul (“a Greek dark wizard and Parselmouth” who create the first Basilisk (3), among other things[…]"
• "Mr. Larsen’s Hairy Pothead learns to play Qannabbi instead of Quidditch, meets Delirious Bake instead of Sirius Black — and on it goes with other Rowlingesque characters such as Master Head Alwaze Duinthadope."
• "The book contains such typically Rowlingesque characters as tree stumps with eyes and hairy hearts, and includes a frontispiece noting that the stories were “translated from the original runes.”"
• "Strong sales (a combined 143 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list) and some serious online obsession from teen girl fans have vaulted Meyer to Rowlingesque heights of popularity;"
• "Why, then, are we so wedded to the romantic illusion of authors as poor, tortured, hungry souls, labouring in unheated garrets until the day they are discovered and rewarded with fairy[-]tale fortunes of Rowlingesque proportions?"