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
The hero, if hero he be, Professor Bernhardi, is carved out of a single block and the minor personalities are each and every one salient.
From Ivory Apes and Peacocks by James Huneker
The books to which Mr. Shaw refers can be searched in vain for any passages parallel to those which have been quoted from Treitschke, Bernhardi, and other German writers.
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 James M. (James Montgomery) Beck
He sends his boy to a Catholic college, his wife has Christian friends, and in his zeal not to seem friendly to Bernhardi, he loses the case.
From Ivory Apes and Peacocks by James Huneker
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