Mitteleuropa
Americannoun
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Today, the phrase suggests Mitteleuropa, the borderless, multilingual cosmopolitanism of pre-1914 Europe; the world of yesterday, as the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig called it.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025
Pallenberg’s own words are read by Scarlett Johansson, albeit — perhaps to avoid undue scrutiny — without Pallenberg’s Mitteleuropa accent.
From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2024
“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
Thus did the "Berlin-Bagdad" dream grow into solid fact, and Mitteleuropa became a hard reality.
From World's War Events Volume 3 Beginning with the departure of the first American destroyers for service abroad in April, 1917, and closing with the treaties of peace in 1919. by Churchill, Allen L. (Allen Leon)
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