Goethean
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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The ideal was a Goethean panorama in which sublimity and scientific curiosity were inextricably mingled.
From Time Magazine Archive
This War, his most recent pamphlet, is a masterful piece of classical rhetoric, tinged, like much of his work, with Goethean pompousness.
From Time Magazine Archive
The earlier part of this book has the very stamp of the Goethean "truth and poetry."
From Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions by Powys, John Cowper
His work draws its significance not so much from the 'what', to use a Goethean expression, as from the 'how' of his observations, that is, from his way of investigating nature.
From Man or Matter by Lehrs, Ernst
A catalogue of the Goethean literature in Germany, from 1793 to 1851, has been published by Balde, at Cassel, and in London by Williams and Norgate.
From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 by Various
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