Alceste
Americannoun
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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
When Oronte says that heaven should strike him dead if he is lying, Alceste looks up to the high ceiling, as if waiting.
From New York Times ● Jun. 11, 2011
It may be taken for granted that the theory enunciated by Gluck in his preface to "Alceste" more than a hundred years ago has now come to be universally adopted.
From Masters of French Music by Arthur Hervey
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