Brecht
noun
Bertolt 1898–1956, German dramatist and poet.
Brechtian
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a word derived from
Brecht.
Example Sentences
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Intellectual license granted, the company is allowed to run riot in a performance work that maintains a Brechtian distance between actor and role.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2025
The project, she said, had an approach similar to “Killers”: “a self-awareness, a self-indictment … almost Brechtian, a great respect for the audience.”
From Seattle Times ● May 13, 2024
But here the “moviemaking” tends to get in the way of the reality Soderbergh also seems to want to portray; it’s alienating, in the Brechtian sense, and perhaps not by intent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2023
Rather, he’s attempted a sometimes Brechtian consideration of the nodes of political history and spirituality.
From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2023
I know that sounds like a desperate postmodern gambit, but it pays hilarious and chilling dividends by turning episodes previously recounted only in disputed legal proceedings into confrontational Brechtian theater.
From Salon ● Mar. 18, 2017
