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Moliere

[ US /moʊɫˈjɛɹ/ ]
NOUN
  1. French author of sophisticated comedies (1622-1673)

How To Use Moliere In A Sentence

  • Francofolies, he is called, this special time when minstrels and jongleurs assemble to share their dreams and secrets in the tongue of Moliere.
  • And, finally, pratfalls are a universal language, and Moliere never betrayed his debt to the Italian tradition of commedia dell'arte.
  • Indeed, Moliere was such a late bloomer as a writer that we don't even know what questions to ask.
  • Neil Bartlett is taking his leave as artistic director in great style, with his elegantly idiomatic translation of one of Molière's greatest plays, and a production that is among the very best Molière I've seen.
  • When we have gone to sleep with a maddening toothache and are conscious of it only as a little girl whom we attempt, time after time, to pull out of the water, or as a line of Molière which we repeat incessantly to ourselves, it is a great relief to wake up, so that our intelligence can disentangle the idea of toothache from any artificial semblance of heroism or rhythmic cadence. Swann's Way
  • Further:The spectre of Greece being plunged into ungovernability -- as if the political shenanigans and ongoings in Athens do not already resemble a Moliere farce – will, it seems, save Papandreou's skin. Greek PM Papandreou wins confidence vote - November 4 2011
  • Here the poet called up into pictorial presence, and informed with life, grace, beauty, infinite friendly mirth and wondrous naturalness of expression, the people of whom his dear books told him the stories, — his Shakspeare, his Cervantes, his Moliere, his Le Sage. Roundabout Papers
  • They give praise and expect it in their turns: they commend their Patrus and Molières, as well as their Condès and Turennes; their Pellisons and Racines have their elogies, as well as the prince whom they celebrate; and their poems, their mercuries, and orations, nay, their very gazettes are filled with the praises of the learned. Lives of the Poets, Volume 1
  • He uses Moliere's play to make a film inside a film about hypocrisy (specifically swindling money from wealthy people using a disguise).
  • Molière, in his best pieces, is as superior to the pure but cold Terence, and to the buffoon Aristophanes, as to the merry-andrew Dancourt. A Philosophical Dictionary
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