Tennysonian
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of Tennysonian
Example Sentences
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The Tennysonian notion that it is not a soldier's business to reason why is so much spinach to the U.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
Burne-Jones also got a title, doing Tennysonian tapestries of never-never land subjects in colors that inspired the Gilbert and Sullivan phrase "greenery-yallery, Grosvenor Gallery."
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Once Gill included the Tennysonian phrase "nature, red in tooth and claw" in a "Talk of the Town" item.
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Not as an epic drama in the Tennysonian manner, but like the medieval minstrel in fitful lyrics Masefield catches a climax here, a sad mood there.
From Time Magazine Archive
He sings in sweet and measured Tennysonian strains of philosophy what Darwin and Herbert Spencer teach in prose; 16 without the informing glow of the imagination.
From Gycia A Tragedy in Five Acts by Morris, Lewis, Sir
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