How To Use Ibsen In A Sentence
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The Wild Duck, where, I think, less than ever before, is to be found a trace of that incoherency which is to be met with occasionally in all the earlier works of Ibsen, and which seems like the effect of a sudden caprice or change of the point of view.
Henrik Ibsen
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Many of the characters in Allen's film are afraid to step outside into the world, and their humorless, arid lives again seem more suited to an Ibsen psychodrama then Allen's usual cinema territory.
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The present prevalence of objection to both is due largely to the strong influence of Ibsen's rigid dramaturgic structure.
The Theory of the Theatre
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MstrLance: The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone. - by Henrik Ibsen godevillivedog: The bullfrog is my pal true blue.
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In the late nineteenth century, the French symbolists admired Ibsen for the mystery and potency of his symbols, which can be found in all his work but are most prominent in his early, verse drama.
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Ibsen was now beginning, rather shyly, very craftily, to invest money; he even found himself in frequent straits for ready coin from his acute impatience to set every rix-dollar breeding.
Henrik Ibsen
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Patched, half-starved, cuffless, and as scornful of the Hook as an interpreter of Ibsen, he had danced his way into health (as you and I view it) and fame in sixteen minutes on Amateur Night at Creary's (Variety) Theatre in Eighth Avenue.
Rolling Stones
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The earnestly intense and naturalistic performances, fine for Ibsen, fit poorly here and consequently come off as either dangerously self-indulgent or oddly casual.
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Ibsen, in sheer mastery of dramaturgic means, stands fourth in rank among the world's great dramatists.
The Theory of the Theatre
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The actors performed A Doll's House, written by Ibsen, which provides a window on the life of a seemingly happy family.
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Peer is one of modern drama's first anti-heroes, and Ibsen never tires of bringing out yet another flaw in his character.
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The result of a searching determination to deal with personal and not typical forms of temperament is seen in the firmness of the portraiture in _The Wild Duck_, where, I think, less than ever before, is to be found a trace of that incoherency which is to be met with occasionally in all the earlier works of Ibsen, and which seems like the effect of a sudden caprice or change of the point of view.
Henrik Ibsen
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New literater's builder in May Fourth period draw into drama by Ibsen, therefrom explicate the Ibsenism, and then play experimenting on text, get great influence in that period.
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All told, an evening that deromanticises Ibsen without debunking him and that offers vital proof as to why we still need the international festival.
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The theory of the French writer is that Ibsen's constant aim is to reconcile and to conciliate the two biological hypotheses which have divided opinion in the nineteenth century, and which are known respectively by the names of Cuvier and Lamarck; namely, that of the invariability of species and that of the mutability of organic forms.
Henrik Ibsen
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Nicholas Martin, the director, apparently wanted to make the play more palatable by emphasizing its comic aspects, both those written by Ibsen and those, more numerous, excogitated by Martin.
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Ibsen's classic play An Enemy of the People tells the story of Thomas Stockman who warns citizens of his Norwegian town that their primary tourist attraction, public baths, is a contaminated health hazard.
Bob Burnett: An Enemy of the People: Texas Money vs. Clean Air
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Ibsen, flown with anger as with wine, could find no outrageous offences to lash, and all he could invite the age to do was to laugh at certain conventions and to reconsider some prejudicated opinions.
Henrik Ibsen
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You could even argue that Flaubert's supple perfection as a novelist is matched by Ibsen's rigorous economy as a dramatist.
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The Swedish Ingeborg Holm was a realist drama related to the work of early twentieth century Scandanavian dramatists like Henrik Ibsen.
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He is entertained by an eminent Dutch jurist in Amsterdam -- and upon the pages of the chronicle it appears that the gentleman is "waxy" and "a little pedantic," and that he is probably the sort of "thin, delicate, well barbered" professor that Ibsen had in mind when he cast about for a husband for the daughter of General Gabler.
A Book of Prefaces
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But Ibsen himself thought her brave and true to her exceptional self, straining against the suffocation of modern life.
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Ibsen goes even further in The Wild Duck, as it examines a family that is knit together with lies.
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Ibsen is in favor of the mariage de convenance, which suppresses, without favor, the absurdity of love-matches.
Henrik Ibsen
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Yet, I would venture the admittedly broad suggestion that their eccentricity and passions prepped the ground in a weird sort of "lowering-the-threshold" way for the likes of Einstein, Freud, Ibsen, Althusser, Sartre, Mapplethorpe, Serra, etc.
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Her career has included stage roles in plays by Shakespeare, Chekhov and Ibsen.
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Aux petits des oiseaux Dieu donne la pature, Mais sa bonte s'arrkete a la litterature, we must believe, with Ibsen's enemies, that his fortunes were not under the divine protection.
Henrik Ibsen
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There can be no doubt that the cold and bitter strength of Sallust; his unflinching method of building up his edifice of invective, stone by stone; his close, unidealistic, dry penetration into character; his clinical attitude, unmoved at the death-bed of a reputation; that all these qualities were directly operative on the mind and intellectual character of Ibsen, and went a long way to mould it while moulding was still possible.
Henrik Ibsen
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He would show, as Ibsen shows, and with an equal lack of malice prepense, various detestable features which the mask of good manners had concealed.
Henrik Ibsen
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So low was he that he preferred Gibsen’s tea-time salmon tinned, as inexpensive as pleasing, to the plumpest roeheavy lax or the friskiest parr or smolt troutlet that ever was gaffed between Leixlip and Island Bridge and many was the time he repeated in his botulism that no junglegrown pineapple ever smacked like the whoppers you shook out of Ananias’ cans,
Finnegans Wake
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In essence, this production lacked depth and strength, and failed to emit the icy austerity of Ibsen's masterpiece.
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Ibsen's magnificence is hard to put across: the drama opens in a drawing room and ends in a howling waste.
Ulster Bank Dublin theatre festival – review
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The situation instinctively reminds one of the play An Enemy of the People by the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen.
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The other is that while Tolstoy and Ibsen presently became, the one indifferent to artistic expression, and the other baldly prosaic where he was once deeply poetical, Bjornson preserved the poetic impulse of his youth, and continued to give it play even in his envisagement of the most practical modern problems.
Bjornstjerne Bjornson
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I based myself at Ibsen's, an art-filled eco-friendly hotel on fashionable Nansensgade, an easy walk from the city center and after viewing artwork at the National Gallery of Denmark, I lunched at Aamann's, specializing in a modern take on the traditional open-faced Danish sandwich called the smorrebrod.
Jill Fergus: Copenhagen Dining Beyond Noma
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'decadence' which has come to its perfection in uncivilised and overcivilised Russia; and the woman whom Ibsen studied as his model was actually half-Russian.
Figures of Several Centuries
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When a new theatre had been established at Bergen, Ibsen was appointed dramaturgist and dramatic poet.
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Ibsen would be a classicist, a romantic, a Scribean, a realist, a symbolist, not to mention a Hegelian and a feminist, before he would be an apocalyptic.
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Here, however, he anatomises Ibsen with luminous clarity.
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The ruinous effect of good intentions is a classic dramatic theme: Ibsen dealt with it tragically in The Wild Duck, and Ayckbourn comically in Joking Apart.
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What is the man's first duty? answer is brief: to be himself. -- Henrik Ibsen.
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Peer is one of modern drama's first anti-heroes, and Ibsen never tires of bringing out yet another flaw in his character.
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Among writers in the North Ibsen began to hold very much the position that Whistler was taking among painters and etchers in this country, that is to say the abuse and ridicule of his works by a dwindling group of elderly conventional critics merely stung into more frenzied laudation an ever-widening circle of youthful admirers.
Henrik Ibsen
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You said that one of the great reliefs of doing Ibsen is that you have some really great dialogue to work with for a change.
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Ibsen's sprawling epic is the kind of play it shouldn't be possible to stage.
