Etymology
Origin of Ibsenism
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Eventually Mr. Bock takes us dangerously close to the glowing core of Ibsenism, giving the Off Broadway treasure Deirdre O’Connell a stupendous 25-minute monologue that rips open the story with heartbreaking self-reproach.
From New York Times ● Aug. 12, 2019
But the shortest form in which I can state the idea of The Quintessence of Ibsenism is that it is the idea of distrusting ideals, which are universal, in comparison with facts, which are miscellaneous.
From George Bernard Shaw by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
It is my solemn belief that it was my Quintessence of Ibsenism that rescued you and all your ungrateful generation from Materialism and Rationalism.*
From Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Maisie Ward
Have you ever read The Quintessence of Ibsenism?
From The Ball and the Cross by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
It's not ignorance or superstition, Paramore: it's sheer downright Ibsenism: that's what it is.
From The Philanderer by Bernard Shaw
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