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Goethe

[ US /ˈɡoʊθ/ ]
NOUN
  1. German poet and novelist and dramatist who lived in Weimar (1749-1832)

How To Use Goethe In A Sentence

  • People who commit these falsehoods may be people of talent, and, as Goethe says of himself, may have "desire to fabulate. Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students
  • If we may apply to art what Goethe said of poetry we find that among its votaries there are two kinds of self-half-informed people, "dilettanti," he calls them, "he who neglects the indispensable mechanical part, and he thinks he has done enough if he shows spirituality and feeling, and he who seeks to arrive at poetry merely by mechanism in which he can acquire an artisan's readiness, and is without soul and matter. Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission
  • 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)
  • The poet Goethe is a supreme exponent of the Romantic response to nature.
  • Their breeding behaviour and how they and their chicks respond to stimuli is tremendously well studied, with the studies of Goethe, Tinbergen and others being classic, pioneering works in ethology. Archive 2006-02-01
  • Goethe has there suggested; and we shall find it can be arranged in what I may call a pentatonic scale of culture. Scientific American Supplement, No. 1178, June 25, 1898
  • Goethe argued that when the three primary colors were combined their unity contained the whole chromatic scale.
  • To employ Vico'sterms, since I have used them to organize this book, Petrarch created the lyric poetry of the Aristocratic Age, which culminated in Goethe.
  • It should be noted that E. F. Kankrin, then the Russian minister of finance, made use of Goethe's advice to mint coins in platinum.
  • Goethe employs the fiction that an editor-figure publishes, with an epilogue, the authentic letters of a young man who commits suicide.
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