Goethean
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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This War, his most recent pamphlet, is a masterful piece of classical rhetoric, tinged, like much of his work, with Goethean pompousness.
From Time Magazine Archive
The ideal was a Goethean panorama in which sublimity and scientific curiosity were inextricably mingled.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then, at times, that prose is as magical and as mysterious as the firmament, when the darkness of twilight has lifted, and the grand Goethean thoughts appear, pure and golden, like the stars.
From The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine by Heine, Heinrich
At a thousand points he is the only modern literary figure who draws us towards him with the old Leonardian, Goethean spell.
From Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions by Powys, John Cowper
Expressed in a Goethean manner, these are the consequence of an insufficient direction of the organic processes in the plant body by the spiritual plant-type underlying it.
From Man or Matter by Lehrs, Ernst
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