Goethean
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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The ideal was a Goethean panorama in which sublimity and scientific curiosity were inextricably mingled.
From Time Magazine Archive
This War, his most recent pamphlet, is a masterful piece of classical rhetoric, tinged, like much of his work, with Goethean pompousness.
From Time Magazine Archive
Having once adopted the Goethean way of thinking-in-polarities, we may feel sure that there is somewhere in nature a phenomenon which represents the polar opposite of the levity-gravity relationship peculiar to the gaseous state.
From Man or Matter by Lehrs, Ernst
These Goethean ballads have a tantalising charm that is indescribable.
From The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine by Heine, Heinrich
Neither has he that Goethean calm in regard to his rivals.
From The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms. by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
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