Peer Gynt
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Like Peer Gynt in search of a greater truth, Oliphant willingly pitted himself against larger-than-life beasts and lived to tell the tale.
From Salon • Sep. 5, 2025
The play is a modernised version of the Ibsen classic Peer Gynt.
From BBC • Jul. 31, 2019
She received a season high 122.21 points, nonetheless, for the difficult performance set to Peer Gynt.
From Washington Post • Feb. 20, 2014
His last ambitious project was a planned animated film of Peer Gynt that, due to his failing health, was never realised beyond storyboard sketches and designs.
From The Guardian • Jul. 1, 2013
Instead of rising as Nora expected she would, she wheeled on the stool and began Morning Mood from Peer Gynt, because the padre preferred Grieg or Beethoven to Chopin.
From The Place of Honeymoons by Keller, Arthur Ignatius
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