Kierkegaard, Søren

[ (seu-ruhn keer-kuh-gahrd, keer-kuh-gawr) ]

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A nineteenth-century Danish philosopher. Kierkegaard wrote much about the fear and loneliness that he believed come with true religion; he is considered a forerunner of twentieth-century existentialism.

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How to use Kierkegaard, Søren in a sentence

Neither Paul nor Kierkegaard were kidding when they wrote of fear and trembling.
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Kierkegaard is right: we are cursed to understand life only backwards while living it forwards.
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Cilia found the suggestion excellent, and began hinting to Soren that he was suffering from sleeplessness and gout.
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Soren was accordingly charged to see that Fagerlin behaved herself, and did not eat up the carrots or the tiger lilies.
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Cilia pondered over the matter for some time; she had never before known Soren to disregard her injunctions in that fashion.
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But for the first time in his life Soren refused to obey, and that so emphatically that his wife was startled.
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The story of that Limfjord charter was her trump card, and never failed to quell Soren's faint attempts at retort.
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