Breuer

[ broi-er ]

noun

1. Jo·sef [yoh, -zef], 1842–1925, Austrian neurologist: pioneer in psychoanalytic techniques.
2. Mar·cel La·jos [mah, r, -, sel, , lo, -yawsh, mahr-, sel], 1902–81, Hungarian architect and furniture designer, in the U.S. after 1937.

Breuer

/ ˈbrɔɪə /

noun

1. BreuerJosef18421925MAustrianMEDICINE: physician Josef (ˈjoːzɛf). 1842–1925, Austrian physician: treated the mentally ill by hypnosis
2. BreuerMarcel Lajos19021981MUSHungarianARCHITECTURE: architectARTS AND CRAFTS: furniture designer Marcel Lajos (mɑːˈsɛl ˈlɔjoʃ). 1902–81, US architect and furniture designer, born in Hungary. He developed bent plywood and tubular metal furniture and designed the UNESCO building in Paris (1953–58)

Example Sentences

Arts and culture were considered news-making at the Voice, which had the temerity to put on its cover a story I wrote on Lee Breuer’s deconstruction of Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House” with little people.

From Los Angeles Times

“The economic reform program implemented by the Sri Lankan authorities is yielding the first signs of recovery,” said Pete Breuer, the IMF’s senior mission chief for Sri Lanka.

From Seattle Times

For years, she had worked on grander designs to transform the Breuer Building on Madison Avenue into a cultural experiment.

From New York Times

And the company only had enough for its other vaccines, so whoever took over the TB vaccine's development would need to pay GSK to ramp up production, which Breuer estimated would cost around $200 million.

From Salon

The connection between suffering and redemption is of course central to Christianity, making Breuer and Telson’s recontextualizing of the Oedipus story both resonant and curiously compatible.

From Los Angeles Times