Cecily had made the boy in Mirabelle's locket too bookish for her tastes.

Arthur was a little too bookish for my style.

It will never be full primetime fare, it's too bookish and leisurely for any of that, but that's for the best.

It has the defect which is common to all the educational systems which we have inherited-itis too bookish, too little practical.

It all came back in cash to the working man; and yet it was my own pals who had rebuked me for being too bookish.