Tennysonian
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of Tennysonian
Example Sentences
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But the fancies and profundities of his mighty lines are about as subtle and original as Kipling gone Tennysonian with an occasional dash of brine from John Masefield and a few zephyrs from Swinburne.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Tennysonian notion that it is not a soldier's business to reason why is so much spinach to the U.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
Once Gill included the Tennysonian phrase "nature, red in tooth and claw" in a "Talk of the Town" item.
From Time Magazine Archive
Burne-Jones also got a title, doing Tennysonian tapestries of never-never land subjects in colors that inspired the Gilbert and Sullivan phrase "greenery-yallery, Grosvenor Gallery."
From Time Magazine Archive
There is nothing Tennysonian about these men, nothing Kiplingesque; their art is neither meretricious nor conceited; but it reminds one oddly of perpendicular architecture.
From Pot-Boilers by Bell, Clive
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