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Mr. Heflin prepared to receive a Voltairian scorching.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is not an especially Voltairian Candide; more significantly, it is not in the least a conventional Broadway musical, for the very good reason that it plainly never sought to be.

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What is most inspired and Voltairian about Candide must plague operetta writing.

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Justice McKenna usually armed himself on the bench with a magnificent, reticent dignity, but in times of argument he rose like an angry emperor slashing controversy with vehement logic, scorching opponents with Voltairian sarcasm.

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His mother, though a Vendéan Royalist, was a Voltairian; and when she entered her sons at the monastic college of Madrid, she declared them Protestants in order to exempt them from the confessional.

From Victor Hugo: His Life and Works by Smith, G. Barnett