Example Sentences

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Compared to its most recent predecessors, “Middle of Nowhere” is a thematically generous record that finds Ms. Musgraves thinking outside of herself, setting aside diaristic monologues in favor of story.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

I’m thinking through how much of this should be diaristic.

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2026

What the world first glimpsed in news clips was expanded into this diaristic account, at once humanistic and harrowing.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2023

Working with Graham was “life in the eye of the storm, at the epicenter of an earthquake,” he wrote in his wry, diaristic 2020 memoir, “Onstage With Martha Graham.”

From New York Times • Mar. 20, 2023

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.

From Washington Post • Nov. 30, 2022