“Your capacity for pity is on the Dostoevskian scale.”. From Wordnik.com. [Tied Up in Tinsel]
Windolf: It surprises me that you began as a Dostoevskian. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Windolf: A Q&A with Tolstoy and Dostoevsky Translator Richard Pevear: Jim Windolf] Reference
Before working on Tolstoy, Pevear was more of a Dostoevskian. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Windolf: A Q&A with Tolstoy and Dostoevsky Translator Richard Pevear: Jim Windolf] Reference
Behind their smooth, bland faces I saw the seething hatreds of Dostoevskian anarchists. From Wordnik.com. [Sin and Taking Offense] Reference
"I have the image of a Dostoevskian actor, but I'm mad about Jerry Lewis," he once remarked. From Wordnik.com. [Laurent Terzieff obituary] Reference
The protagonist is Tito Arnaudi, a young Dostoevskian nihilist who travels from his home town Turin to Paris after a failed love story. From Wordnik.com. [10 « September « 2008 « Jahsonic] Reference
Perhaps Robbins should read Bill Buckley's recently- reprinted tribute to Whittaker Chambers, a man of Dostoevskian gloom lightened by a twinkle, a refusal to despair. From Wordnik.com. [Derb, Doom, and Gloom] Reference
Curiously, during the preceding nine months of continuous worry, Dostoevskian in intensity and Biblical in scope (what if he's … an albino?), the question of happiness for the creature under gestation had never really entered my mind. From Wordnik.com. [The Pursuit of Unhappiness] Reference
Dirda on Nightmare Alley by William Lindsay Gresham: While I've known for a long time that William Lindsay Gresham's 'Nightmare Alley' 1946 was an established classic of noir fiction, I was utterly unprepared for its raw, Dostoevskian power. From Wordnik.com. [Old Media Monday: Reviewing the Reviewers] Reference
Williams said: "I think Tony Blair is one of the most un-Dostoevskian characters in Britain.". From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
While critics often cite this mock-execution and his subsequent exile in Siberia as the root of trademark Dostoevskian existentialism. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The Dostoevskian thesis at play that can resonate with the YouTube crowd is that authenticity may have little to do with mutual endorsement at all. From Wordnik.com. Reference
In the best traditions of the college-dorm bildungsroman, Josué and Jericó indulge in entertainingly written, Dostoevskian debates about St. Augustine vs. From Wordnik.com. [latimes.com - News] Reference
The story "Good Old Neon" in Oblivion is not a Dostoevskian ten-page monologue by someone trying to decide whether to commit suicide; rather, it is a forty-page monologue by someone who has committed suicide, and who would explain not so much how he could have come to such an end as what we mean when we say someone takes his life, and what such a taking leaves us--what the moments we're left with might be able to contain. From Wordnik.com. [David Foster Wallace Thought Readers Are Smart And Tolstoy Was His Role Model] Reference
The story "Good Old Neon" in Oblivion is not a Dostoevskian ten-page monologue by someone trying to decide whether to commit suicide; rather, it is a forty-page monologue by someone who has committed suicide, and who would explain not so much how he could have come to such an end as what we mean when we say someone takes his life, and what such a taking leaves us -- what the moments we're left with might be able to contain. From Wordnik.com. [David Foster Wallace Thought Readers Are Smart And Tolstoy Was His Role Model] Reference
I don’t anticipate Tolstoyan depth and richness; or Nabokovian prose; or even Dostoevskian intensity. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time 1: the Eye of the World (1990)] Reference
The Victim is Bellow's most Dostoevskian book. From Wordnik.com. [Bellow's Gift] Reference
The very spirit of The Victim is Dostoevskian. From Wordnik.com. [Bellow's Gift] Reference
She is part Dostoevskian and part Nietzschean. From Wordnik.com. [India's Bandit Queen] Reference
Dostoevskian. From Wordnik.com. [Laurent Terzieff obituary] Reference
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