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
Once this is done the way will be free for the development of the picture of the spectrum phenomenon which is in true accord with the Goethean conception of Light and Colour.
From Man or Matter by Lehrs, Ernst
According to the portrait taken from the gallery of Goethean women, K�the was a fascinating, round-faced girl.
From Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) by Schoenfeld, Hermann
The Goethean attitude to the Universe is too self-poised and self-centered to be adequately rendered by any word that suggests complete abandonment.
From Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions by Powys, John Cowper
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