Sentence examples for bookish expressions from inspiring English sources

Skipping over "Bones" (Fox, 2005), "Criminal Minds" and "How I Met Your Mother" (CBS, 2005), we arrive at "The Big Bang Theory" (CBS, 2007), whose remarkable rise in popularity has tracked the most significant change in American popular culture as a whole: the rise of nerd taste, from its stereotypical techie-Trekkie manifestations like "Big Bang" to more bookish expressions like "Game of Thrones".

Léger's expression of her own incredulity — "Mickey Mantle is talking to me about Proust" — doesn't render the incident any more credible to a reader; rather, it comes off as an unfortunate bookish prejudice that equates verbal expression with high culture.

Daniel Koehler has the look of a young and bookish academic - tall and quietly spoken.

Follow these bookish Twitters.

I'm bookish, not hyperbolic.

(Bookish sisters beware).

He was a shy, bookish little boy.

We were bookish, but in nonacademic ways.

A bookstore for the reverently bookish.

But she's more bookish than ethereal.

But if you mean bookish, yes.