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US
/ˈdɹaɪfəs, ˈdɹeɪfəs/
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NOUN
- French army officer of Jewish descent whose false imprisonment for treason in 1894 raised issues of anti-Semitism that dominated French politics until his release in 1906 (1859-1935)
How To Use Dreyfus In A Sentence
- In Mind over Machine (1986), Dreyfus and Dreyfus oppose this trend and perform a valuable service by insisting on the centrality to intelligent behavior of what they call intuition—“the understanding that effortlessly occurs upon seeing similarities with previous experiences” (28). The Muse in the Machine
- A remorseless critic in Kraus's own mould might well argue that if you were wrong about Dreyfus it wouldn't matter too much what you were right about.
- The $250,000 award is given biennially by the New York-based Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation. Chemical Engineer Honored by Foundation
- The Dreyfus case was never completely cleared up. It remains a mystery.
- Ms. Louis-Dreyfus often collaborated with Charmaine Simmons, the “Seinfeld” costume designer, to create Elaine’s look.
- DeVito stars opposite Dreyfuss in the movie.
- By counterposing the ‘virtual’ world to the ‘real’ world, Dreyfus falls into the same dualism as the Platonic and Cartesian traditions he derides.
- He joined the army in 1883 at the age of 18, but dramatically resigned his commission when the Dreyfus affair broke.
- Dreyfusism had brought to Swann an extraordinary simplicity of mind and had imparted to his way of looking at things an impulsiveness, an inconsistency more noticeable even than had been the similar effects of his marriage to Odette; this new loss of caste would have been better described as a recasting, and was entirely to his credit, since it made him return to the ways in which his forebears had trodden and from which he had turned aside to mix with the aristocracy. The Guermantes Way
- James Dreyfus played Edna's administrator and Kevin Lloyd and Seeta Indrani appeared briefly as hospital orderlies.