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
“There’s always this kind of balance, what Robert Musil would say is between the sense of possibility and reality.”
From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2022
“CowPony” is inspired by a real-life incident when a horse that Musil had planned to ride was meandering almost completely hidden among a herd of Hereford cows.
From Washington Post • Apr. 14, 2022
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