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
I talk with a Goethean moderation on this subject, which rather surprises her and ——, who are nearer the entrance of the studio.
From Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I by Fuller, Margaret
The earlier part of this book has the very stamp of the Goethean "truth and poetry."
From Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions by Powys, John Cowper
Yorick’s whim and sentiment are quite wanting, and the sensuousness, especially as pertains to corporeal beauty, is distinctly Goethean.
From Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century by Hewett-Thayer, Harvey W. (Harvey Waterman)
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