pensée
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pensées
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Such a pensée fits with the French moralist tradition of Montaigne, Pascal and La Rochefoucauld, yet Baudelaire always regarded Edgar Allan Poe, whom he translated, as his spiritual brother.
From Washington Post ● May 11, 2022
Danny’s latest pensée is easily as amusing as his rumination on the 11th anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Center.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 29, 2018
It loved Camilla, and followed her everywhere: Henry quoted long passages about Emma Bovary and her greyhound: “Sa pensée, sans but d’abord, vagabondait au hasard, comme sa levrette, qui faisait des cercles dans la campagne....”
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
It has since been admirably translated into French by M. Aurelien de Courson under the title of "Fridoline!"—"happy thought!" being, however, somewhat inadequately rendered "ingénieuse pensée!"
From The History of "Punch" by M. H. (Marion Harry) Spielmann
If there was any arrière pensée, he thought he might detect it by looking on.
From The Side Of The Angels A Novel by Basil King
He dished out the bons mots with each entrance like he was a thirsty Pascal who paid for his drinks in pensées, which made him an inspiration.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2025
These included, most egregiously, seven extra copies of Cyril Connolly’s moody collection of pensées, “The Unquiet Grave.”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 10, 2020
So it must be satisfying for Donald J. Trump, the President-elect, to fire off pensées on his Twitter account, knowing that each of these thoughts, or notions—however to describe them—will be subject to analysis.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 1, 2016
Pieces like Vexations and Avant-dernières pensées are ‘minimalist’ many decades before Riley, Glass or Reich.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 1, 2015
It is not fair to read them in that way, of course, for there are more than five hundred pensées, and so much esprit becomes fatiguing.
From Letters on Literature by Andrew Lang
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