Goethean

American  

[gur-tee-uhn] / ˈgɜr ti ən /

adjective

1. relating to or characteristic of the writing, ideas, or style of Goethe.

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Example Sentences

I know you're surrounded with the din of battle, and yet the beauty you produce has the Goethean calm, even like the beauty distilled at Weimar when the smoke was over Jena.

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I had already prophesied many years in advance the end of the Goethean art-period, by which name I was the first to designate that era.

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Franz Liszt, the famous pianist, has written a pleasant pamphlet in favor of the project of a Goethean Institute of Art in Weimar, where he is chapel master.

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According to the portrait taken from the gallery of Goethean women, K�the was a fascinating, round-faced girl.

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Self-culture, in the Goethean sense, is, then, a much nobler and more religious affair than the popular notion makes it.

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