pensée
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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
This is what the French would call a grande pensée, and quite as heroic as any thing in a melodrama of the Porte St Martin.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 by Various
But my arrière pensée was, “Would that that burglar had bagged the old iceberg, and carried her off to her native Nova Zembla!”
From That Mother-in-Law of Mine by Anonymous
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