Faust

How To Use Faust In A Sentence

• Faustman’s approach offered a distinct advantage over much of the current treatment in autoimmunity, which is usually more broadly immunosuppressive—meaning it tinkers with all T cells or all B cells in order to try to keep the autoimmune reaction from occurring. The Autoimmune Epidemic
• Faustianism, in the modern sense of endless questing, had come to be regarded as a virtue. MOTIF
• The first performance was of Charles Gounod's Faust, the fascinating tale of a German sorcerer who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge, power, youth, and love.
• The poems are the three panegyrics with their appendixes; two epithalamia; an acknowledgment to Faustus of Reji (now Riez), a eulogy of Narbonne, or rather, of two citizens of Narbonne; a description of the castle (burgas) of Leontius, etc. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
• In light of this "curious case of the cacophonous snack pack," I find that many people see sustainability as a version of a Faustian dilemma; they often knowingly make choices that have immediate personal benefits, but in the long run are disastrous for all of us. Ron Ashkenas: Sustainability's Faustian Dilemma
• It was a “Faustian bargain,” wrote one journalist, a “fiendishly complicated scheme,” in which the young liberal ministers sold their souls to a cabal of unscrupulous tycoons. The Return
• They certainly help to enhance a perspective that sees Faustus as a pawn between two more powerful forces.
• It was a modern version of the Faust theme, but comic, not philosophical, with apologies to Goethe and Marlowe. THE INNOCENTS AT HOME (A SUPERINTENDENT KENWORTHY NOVEL)
• When his courtiers and attendants had bowed their way out of the room, Valentinian summoned Faustinus into an antechamber.
• The town has struck a Faustian bargain, they contend -- trading something of its small-town soul for success.