Stendhalian

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.

Literary ideology of adultery 2009

“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.

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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

Claude Simon - Nobel Lecture 1985

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