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Nicolai

[ nik-uh-lahy; German nee-koh-lah-ee ]

noun

  1. (Carl) Ot·to (Eh·ren·fried) [kah, r, l , awt, -oh , ey, -, r, uh, n-f, r, eet], 1810–49, German composer.


Nicolai

/ nikoˈlaɪ /

noun

  1. NicolaiCarl Otto Ehrenfried18101849MGermanMUSIC: composer Carl Otto Ehrenfried (karl ˈɔto ˈeːrənfriːt). 1810–49, German composer: noted for his opera The Merry Wives of Windsor (1849)


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What Nicolai is interested in is time and movement, both of which are present in so much of his art.

In photographs taken from a distance, the works of German artist Carsten Nicolai look cold, calculated, and removed.

"You see the mote in your brother's eye, but not the beam in your own," said Nicolai Egeland, appropriately.

Nicolai says Sterne is called with justice One of the most refined, ingenious and humorous authors of our time.

There certainly is no ground for the charge that Fichte attacked Nicolai when he was too old to reply.

In Nicolai Lenin the political chief of Russias millions, we may well find a menace, for his figure looms over the world.

Will the reader consent to their Dialogue, which is dullish, but singular to have in an authentic form, with Nicolai as voucher?

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