Musil
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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I wish writers could just sit around and be dreamy instead of having, to borrow the words of Robert Musil, to “eat steak and keep moving.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2023
“I was sickened by this use of technology that I had had such great hopes for,” Vonnegut told journalist Robert Musil in 1980, “and so I came to fear it.”
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 10, 2022
Romford heavyweight Johnny Fisher extended his unbeaten record to 7-0 thanks to a first-round demolition of Czech fighter Dominik Musil, who was knocked down twice before the fight was stopped.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2022
Musil sculpted the face of the sorrel into the herd, resulting in a piece so intricate in detail that the entire work looks carved in 3D.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 14, 2022
Neither Musil seems a likely candidate for the role of novelist, even in that hotbed of modernism that was the Austro-Hungarian Empire during its dying liberal decades.
From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2019
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