Lomanesque

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English

Etymology

Loman +‎ -esque

Adjective

Lomanesque (comparative more Lomanesque, superlative most Lomanesque)

  1. Characteristic of Willy Loman, an aging salesman in suicidal decline, in Arthur Miller's 1949 play Death of a Salesman.
    • 2006, Sharon Kurtzman, Cosmo's Deli, page 12:
      Renny works on the tenth floor and this morning she navigates the maze of cubicles like a well trained lab rat, her face set in a Lomanesque expression of one continuing to work long after the job has lost its excitement.
    • 2013, Lawrence R. Samuel, The American Middle Class: A Cultural History, page 26:
      Rather incredibly, Mills recommended that white-collar Americans adopt a kind of Lomanesque hopelessness and despair, as such a perspective at least acknowledged the unfortunate realities of being middle class in postwar America.