Bernhardi
Americannoun
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Not merely complacently sure of herself, like Bernhardi, she is, in Stevenson’s unflinching performance, a completely unsympathetic blowhard.
From New York Times • Jun. 15, 2023
Opal’s 81-year old daughter, Cheryl Bernhardi, once asked her mother what she remembers most.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 11, 2019
He sends his boy to a Catholic college, his wife has Christian friends, and in his zeal not to seem friendly to Bernhardi, he loses the case.
From Ivory Apes and Peacocks by Huneker, James
These things are all in gospel according to Bernhardi.
From My Mission to London 1912-1914 by Lichnowsky, Karl Max, F?rst von
Machiavelli gave to his Prince a literary finish that placed his treatise among the classics, while Bernhardi has gained recognition chiefly because his book is a moral anachronism.
From The Evidence in the Case A Discussion of the Moral Responsibility for the War of 1914, as Disclosed by the Diplomatic Records of England, Germany, Russia by Beck, James M. (James Montgomery)
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