Alceste
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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That doesn’t mean assuming the role of Alceste in Molière’s “The Misanthrope,” the critic of society who calls out everyone’s faults while remaining oblivious to his own.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2021
For “The School for Lies,” Ives invented a character named Frank, who takes the place of Molière’s Alceste as the blunt teller of truths.
From Washington Post ● May 24, 2017
But retaining the verse format also provides a fine pretext for the disaffection of the central character, Alceste, who resolves to speak in plain prose.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 21, 2013
This comes in handy, because his Alceste is so appalled by his fellow man and woman that it makes him physically ill.
From New York Times ● Jun. 11, 2011
Great is the temptation to answer with Alceste: "Nous verrons bien!"
From The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare by J. J. Jusserand
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