How To Use Gordian In A Sentence
- As the Edmonton festival has grown to more than 150 companies presenting their magnum opi, perusing the tome that is the Fringe programme has become akin to unraveling the Gordian knot.
- Some hours later followed Perigordian duck, with trimmings, and Bordeaux. Ensign Flandry
- Instead of her I have only met a Parisian wench and a Perigordian Abbé. Candide
- In the 1759 editions, in place of the long passage in brackets from here to page 215, there was only the following: "'Sir,' said the Perigordian Abbé to him, 'have you noticed that young person who has so roguish a face and so fine a figure? Candide
- Let me suggest that for William, heir to the throne, the monarchy is a Gordian knot whose time for cutting is well overdue.
- Many of us have learned the legend of Alexander the Great and the Gordian Knot.
- Thus Candide, Martin, and the Perigordian conversed on the staircase, while watching every one go out after the performance. Candide
- The term comes from the German durcharbeiten, the theory that talking, however painful, can at the very least be palliative, and might just untie the more Gordian knots for good. BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES
- Have you seen," said the Perigordian Abbé, "the romance of Sieur Candide
- Placidi ", purporting to be written by one Gordianus, a servant of the saint, on the strength of which he is usually described as abbot and martyr, is really the work of Peter the Deacon, a monk of Monte Cassino in the twelfth century (see Delehaye, op.cit. infra). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss