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
From the Goethean point of view we see heat passing through a metamorphosis.
From Man or Matter by Ernst Lehrs
Neither has he that Goethean calm in regard to his rivals.
From The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
A Goethean disciple is able, then, to worship Life, with no mystery behind it!
From Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions by John Cowper Powys
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