Bernhardi
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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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
It is also to be noticed that Professor Bernhardi has among his assistants a son, who divides his time between medicine and the composition of waltz music.
From The Lonely Way—Intermezzo—Countess Mizzie Three Plays by Björkman, Edwin
There is a curious recurrence of the same basic idea in "Professor Bernhardi," where the central figure acquires a similar sense of our ordinary life's futility by spending two months in jail.
From The Lonely Way—Intermezzo—Countess Mizzie Three Plays by Björkman, Edwin
For what is the effect of this increase on the minds of Germans possibly disposed to disagree with Bernhardi?
From The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage by Angell, Norman
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