Bernanos
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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She easily jousts with reporters, even while working a crowd, brushing off a British television reporter who questioned her electoral potential at one stop with a quotation from the right-wing Roman Catholic author George Bernanos.
From New York Times • May 3, 2017
Because as Georges Bernanos, the French author and first world war soldier, wrote: “It takes a lot of rebels to make a free people.”
From The Guardian • Mar. 10, 2017
The pungent realist who adapted a novel by the Robert Bresson collaborator Georges Bernanos, earning catcalls at Cannes in the process?
From New York Times • Oct. 15, 2015
Georges Bernanos rode in the French Cavalry in World War I, receiving a chest wound and a Croix de Guerre.
From Time Magazine Archive
What Bernanos has done is to prove again, for the 20th Century, the psychological power of religious insight.
From Time Magazine Archive
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