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Stendhalian, a. and n.|stɑ̃ˈdɑːlɪən| [f. Stendhal, the nom-de-plume of the French writer Henri Beyle (1783–1842) + -ian.] A. adj. Characteristic or suggestive of the writings of Stendhal. B. n. A follower or devotee of Stendhal or his works.
1907G. B. Shaw Mahor Barbara Pref. 150 The sensation first came to me from Lever and may have come to him from Beyle, or at least out of the Stendhalian atmosphere. 1928Sunday Express 8 Apr. 7/4 The Stendhalians are invariably cynics who delight in heartlessness and selfishness. 1937Wyndham Lewis Blasting & Bombardiering 53, I was not surprised, luckily, when I became a lion, to find this gilded tamer a tough customer. I began studying her ways with curiosity, this spoilt and cocksure goddess of the ocean wave. I filled a notebook with Stendhalian observations. 1950Essays & Studies III. 86 In this sense the Stendhalian analogy of crystallization may be applied equally to the reasons of the intellect as to the reasons of the heart, of which reason itself comprehends nothing. 1968E. Hyams Mischief Makers vi. 99, I had gone flabby; no Stendhalian hero. 1980A. Alpers Life Katherine Mansfield ix. 163 Murry [was]..starting a huge Stendhalian novel. |