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
Poulenc wrote the French libretto, adapted from a play by Georges Bernanos, and his music is an uncanny balancing act: restrained yet lush, refined yet wrenching.
From New York Times • May 6, 2013
The visitor is a dead ringer for the archfoe of all that M. Bernanos holds valuable: Anatole France.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bernanos is not, like England's prodigious William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, a proponent of social reform.
From Time Magazine Archive
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