Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, pertaining to, or in the style of Marie-Henri Beyle (known as Stendhal)
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word Stendhalian.
Examples
-
The Boomer Americana is attractive, the rise of the ambitious provincial to the big leagues has a built-in Stendhalian appeal, and the writing's garrulity carries you along — even if Clinton's best stories are ruined by his insistence on turning every good anecdote into another job qualification.
Policy Wank 2004
-
The Boomer Americana is attractive, the rise of the ambitious provincial to the big leagues has a built-in Stendhalian appeal, and the writing's garrulity carries you along — even if Clinton's best stories are ruined by his insistence on turning every good anecdote into another job qualification.
Policy Wank 2004
-
“I believe enduring love is primarily a commitment and an act of will, and for a marriage to be successful, that commitment must be reciprocal,” Mrs Sanford said, exposing the gulf between her and her husband, who believes instead in the Stendhalian passion that sweeps a man away against his interests.
-
“I believe enduring love is primarily a commitment and an act of will, and for a marriage to be successful, that commitment must be reciprocal,” Mrs Sanford said, exposing the gulf between her and her husband, who believes instead in the Stendhalian passion that sweeps a man away against his interests.
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
-
Stendhalian fragrance from the name of the Princess, and in implanting there, in their place, the image of a little dark woman, taken up with good works, of a friendliness so humble that one felt at once in how exalted a pride that friendliness had its roots.
The Guermantes Way 2003
-
Parma, in which no breath of air stirred, and of all that I had made it assume of Stendhalian sweetness and the reflected hue of violets.
Swann's Way 2003
-
On the one hand Henri Martineau, that eminent Stendhalian, assures us that from the outset of Le Rouge et le Noir Julien
-
Nemerov has shrewdly assigned speaking roles to the two companions Saul is said to have taken with him on his visit to the kindly, culinary Witch; a "Commander" to represent the military, and a "Minister" to handle the Stendhalian ironies of power.
Poetry Flint, R.W. 1963
-
The Kantian conception of the disinterested contemplation of Beauty Nietzsche likened to the moon looking at the earth at night and giving the earth only dreams; but the Stendhalian conception of
A Tramp's Sketches Stephen Graham 1929
-
How appropriate, then, that his new book, and second novel "World Elsewhere" appeared in 1999, is a highly Stendhalian affair, with the great French writer himself being one of three major characters.
The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - washingtonpost.com 2011
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.