The discovery did not cause him to draw up a Balzacian master plan.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Private World of William Faulkner]

Migne compared himself to a Balzacian character (a Rastignac in surplice?) and to Hercules.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tycoon Priest] Reference

Balzacian way than the introductory chapters, which, however, are more than usually tortuous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balzac] Reference

There is a Balzacian force to the descriptions of people and places, firmly set in the everyday.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of Sinclair Lewis] Reference

It is obvious that the Battle of Waterloo, as described by Stendhal, no longer belongs to the Balzacian order.    From Wordnik.com.  [Experimental Fiction] Reference

They're not from a literary source like Balzac, but yet they have this Balzacian aspect to them that a writer could pick up on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marina Cashdan: Mental States: An Interview with George Condo] Reference

This Balzacian trick obsessed the author for a time.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Merry-Go-Round] Reference

This specially Balzacian quality is, I think, unique.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Human Comedy: Introductions and Appendix] Reference

I refer to the Balzacian trick of carrying people from one book to another.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Merry-Go-Round] Reference

Miserables is a monument of his fiction that owes much to Balzacian architecture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balzac]

Balzacian world has the power of making every other milieu seem a little faded and pallid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations] Reference

A little systematic reading of this nature will speedily render the reader a "confirmed Balzacian.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 1] Reference

Lawson in Celibates -- very Balzacian title, by the way -- deals with hardly anything else but art.    From Wordnik.com.  [Promenades of an Impressionist] Reference

Balzacian white robe and lots of coffee, must have been for a ten mile walk before can sit down to write, etc etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brit Lit Blogs] Reference

Taine's Origins of Contemporary France abdicates none of the older historian's role, but its background is Balzacian.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balzac]

The latter had already prepared a cabinet of pigeon-holes, arranged and classified by the names of Balzacian characters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 1] Reference

The motto indicates the high esteem in which the French authorities hold this very necessary adjunct to the great Balzacian structure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 1] Reference

They would shake hands and then discuss the Balzacian novel: the maid would be dismissed; and the next day Balzac would call at their villa to pay his respects to her husband.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers] Reference

A monument of his fiction that owes much to Balzacian architecture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balzac] Reference

You, "he said, turning a little so that he might see her better," are intensely Balzacian. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Evelyn Innes] Reference

Taine’s Origins of Contemporary France abdicates none of the older historian’s role, but its background is Balzacian.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balzac] Reference

Listen to the calm, mock-Balzacian beginning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ian McEwan's 'Solar': The Fat Man's Vengeance (New York Review)] Reference

Balzacian will be found in either.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century] Reference

Balzacian mania will cause the reader to smile.    From Wordnik.com.  [Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 1] Reference

Balzacian insignificance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Max Beerbohm] Reference

"It is Balzacian.".    From Wordnik.com.  [clusterflock] Reference

"I'm rather a Balzacian myself.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fortunate Youth] Reference

I’m interested from the Balzacian point of view.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guermantes Way] Reference