Bernhardi
Americannoun
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Not merely complacently sure of herself, like Bernhardi, she is, in Stevenson’s unflinching performance, a completely unsympathetic blowhard.
From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 2023
Opal’s 81-year old daughter, Cheryl Bernhardi, once asked her mother what she remembers most.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2019
If Germany succeeds, it will claim that “nothing succeeds like success,” and to the disciples of Treitschke and Bernhardi this will be a sufficing answer.
From The Evidence in the Case A Discussion of the Moral Responsibility for the War of 1914, as Disclosed by the Diplomatic Records of England, Germany, Russia by Beck, James M. (James Montgomery)
We went over Bernhardi and Treitschke; we weighed Nietzsche’s share in that mental growth.
From Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Until Act IV there is hardly one genuine dramatic episode, though Bernhardi at a directors' meeting is forced to resign and is eventually sent to prison for two months.
From Ivory Apes and Peacocks by Huneker, James
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