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
Von Bernhardi does not assume that France is played out or that England is effete.
From German Problems and Personalities by Saroléa, Charles
Bernhardi: "Have we not surpassed your most sanguine expectations?"
From Raemaekers' Cartoon History of the War, Volume 2 The Second Twelve Months of War by Raemaekers, Louis
The brilliant but erratic George Bernard Shaw cannot find in all English literature any such Machiavelliisms as those of Treitschke and Bernhardi.
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)
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