How To Use Proustian In A Sentence
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As I say `I tasted', I taste, and as I say `I heard', I hear: I am not talking about a Proustian moment, but a Proustian cine-film.
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Often referred to as a Proustian painter because he painted from memory rather than from life, Bonnard is even more a Jamesian one.
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To suggest - as some critics have - that the memoir owes its power to "Proustian" overtones is ridiculous.
Books, Inq. — The Epilogue
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We can speak of encountering, sometimes in the most unlikely settings, dynamics most succinctly described as "Proustian," "Austenesque" and "Kafkan.
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To this day, the smell of sawdust is my Proustian madeleine: it brings back a life.
The Dark Side of Innocence
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I remembered, and my heart leaped with a kind of Proustian joy while Time tolled about me like a bell ....
The Courts of Chaos
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Although the Proustian amassment of details may create the effect of "truthfulness", it does not interest Fedor due to his cult of imagination.
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A well-known idea called the "Proustian phenomenon" proposes that distinctive smells have more power than any other sense to help us recall distant memories.
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As we are about to leave, Michel presents us with a small packet of madeleines, the Proustian cake symbolic of the sweet excruciations of the past.
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I am too far for touch, too near for Proustian telescopy.
Commonplace
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This knowledge allows him to trace the development of Proustian themes and reconstruct how Proust wrote his book, step by step.
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Replicated shagpile/Proustian pouffes elicit geysers of tears from unsuspecting famouses
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But when they meet again 20 years later and Austerlitz finally tells his story to the narrator and explains how he discovered the secret of his birth, some pages are so sad that I couldn't help crying, and I felt that Sebald had managed to awaken the reader's memory too--not the intellectual, reconstructed memory, but that "Proustian" memory based on sensations, the only one that brings back the true past as if there were no time.
W.G. Sebald: Austerlitz
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I mean they're also kind of Proustian, because you're dealing with moments of consciousness.
Undefined
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That mulchy smell could trigger an olfactory flashback of Proustian ripeness in children of a certain age.
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We were received with the effusiveness usually secured only by having previously overtipped on a Proustian scale.
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This is a wine that Ryanair needs to watch out for: it can transport you in a Proustian rush to the dry, heathery heat of an evening north of Carcassonne for less than £9 return.
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When your stable of bikes can be described as Proustian it may be time to start thinning the proverbial herd.
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As we are about to leave, Michel presents us with a small packet of madeleines, the Proustian cake symbolic of the sweet excruciations of the past.
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The two untouched cinnamon buns on her plate are a Proustian touch added by the Chicago-based founder of American Girl Place.
