Word: stendhalian
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Stendhal was, as always, Stendhalian: "The greatest happiness love can offer is the first pressure of the hand by the woman one loves...
...Seeking Stendhalian clarity on this point, Mollet last week addressed a letter to 34 party leaders (not including Communists or Poujadists). Wrote Mollet: "The chiefs of the Algerian rebellion . . . will refuse to accept our offer of a cease-fire so long as they can hope that France may change its Algerian policy ... It is important . . . that there be no misunderstanding about the continuity of the policy during the present legislature . . ." On the eve of the critical U.N. debate on Algeria, Mollet asked for and got a blank check...
...latter-day Galsworthy, precise, ruminative, articulate, but decorously genteel to the point of inaudibility. Critics who for more than a decade have touted him as a new Stendhal are simply chasing the wrong literary genealogy. In the Snow-Galsworthy vision, the middle class can have no Stendhalian tragedies, only troubles. The scent of Homecoming is well-bred but unmistakable: it's Yardley Soap opera...
Bitter Decline. With Stendhalian suddenness, the mood of the picture breaks. The countess, who has never had to choose between anything more serious than dancing partners, suddenly faces a cruel choice between love and loyalty. The count comes home, sees what has happened, tries hard to calm her. She takes a trip. The baron's letters follow her. She rushes back to throw herself in his arms...
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