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Many of them are essentially dramatic, but their method of presentation is almost always lyric or narrative rather than dramatic, even in the Maeterlinckian sense of the word.

From Irish Plays and Playwrights by Weygandt, Cornelius

I said that I felt fat, physically, and Maeterlinckian or Burne-Jonesy, or anything else that suggests the twilight mood, spiritually.

From Nights in London by Burke, Thomas

And then she got up on the piano and gave them an organ monkey; I gather she went in for realism rather than a Maeterlinckian treatment of the subject. 

From Reginald by Saki

However, I felt very fat, physically, and very Maeterlinckian, spiritually, as we clambered into a cab and swung up the great bleak space of Kingsway.

From Nights in London by Burke, Thomas

"Oh, Kate!" she said vaguely, in a voice that seemed to drift from a Maeterlinckian mist.

From The Precipice by Peattie, Elia Wilkinson