Sainte-Beuve
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Ms Sainte-Beuve said she had found Gisèle "exceptionally resilient": "She turned what could have destroyed her into strength."
From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2024
Medical examiner Anne Martinat Sainte-Beuve said that in the wake of her husband's arrest, Gisèle was clearly traumatised but calm and distant – a coping mechanism often employed by survivors of terrorist attacks.
From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2024
It was through Saintsbury I came to read the French, especially Sainte-Beuve, and another critical line that interested me was Peacock/Meredith/Huxley.
From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2021
Anxious to please, Sainte-Beuve replaced Merimee with Alfred de Musset, who was to prove, except for one divertisement, eminently satisfactory.
From Time Magazine Archive
The little I know about France of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries I owe to having clung to the broad and often elusive coat-tails of Sainte-Beuve.
From The Critical Game by John Albert Macy
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