Mitteleuropa
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Before long, Schine’s story opened out onto an often-overlooked history: the World War II era when refugee artists including Thomas Mann and Arnold Schoenberg made Los Angeles a kind of Mitteleuropa in exile.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2023
“I really don’t want to get into the sepia saga business,” he added, “writing up some elegiac Mitteleuropa narrative of loss.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 7, 2022
With their attention to the banality of the present, these photographs keep the show from becoming the kind of story de Waal is anxious to avoid, “some elegiac Mitteleuropa narrative of loss,” as he writes.
From New York Times ● Dec. 29, 2021
Banská Bystrica is a tranquil kind of place, with a genteel Mitteleuropa charm: the centre has pavement cafes, neat rows of burgher houses and a number of handsome baroque churches.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 14, 2019
Mitteleuropa is not merely a geographical designation which excludes all but two or three of the participants.
From The Belgian Curtain Europe after Communism by Samuel Vaknin
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