Montherlant
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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“Happiness writes white,” said Henry de Montherlant, and, for me, likewise hope, genuine grief, positive intention, happy results.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 14, 2017
One instance is his work for a modern retelling by Henry de Montherlant of the myth of Pasiphaë.
From New York Times ● Dec. 17, 2015
Hemingway and his Paris crowd were very important to me; Joyce, Camus, Chekhov but also Henrik Ibsen and – in the German speaking countries – the nearly forgotten Henry de Montherlant.
From The Guardian ● May 15, 2013
It's the Henry de Montherlant line that "happiness writes white."
From New York Times ● Oct. 3, 2012
It gives its actors a chance to play in, and its audiences a chance to see, such varied fare as Shakespeare and Beaumarchais, Mauriac and Montherlant.
From Time Magazine Archive
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