Wrecks - a solo performance in which Harris proffers a kind of Dostoyevskian monologue (which means it's partly rambling, partly unstable, yet largely profound) from the point of view of a widower at the viewing of his deeply cherished wife.    From Wordnik.com.  [LA Weekly | Complete Issue] Reference

And Whittaker Chambers was a very Dostoyevskian figure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smiling Through the Cultural Catastrophe: Toward the Revival of Higher Education] Reference

This was a very Dostoyevskian line: Mike Tyson saying "My insanity is my only sanity.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Kim Morgan: Hungry Heart: Toback on Tyson] Reference

It sounded to me a little like John Steinbeck's East of Eden with Dostoyevskian overtones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kerouac Unbound] Reference

Treme is less focused on cause-and-effect than The Wire, which was a grand, sprawling, Dostoyevskian story.    From Wordnik.com.  [Treme : A Complex, Enthralling New Drama] Reference

A Dostoyevskian inspired tale, The Tenant is supremely creepy, philosophically fascinating, funny and daring.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ten of Polanski's Best...Kitty Cat] Reference

The phrase "wild men" would certainly be applied to the Dostoyevskian fringes of the movement by, say, Victor Serge.    From Wordnik.com.  [All or Nothing] Reference

Next door to me, in a room only slightly smaller than mine, were what seemed like several hundred sullen and impoverished students living a Dostoyevskian nightmare.    From Wordnik.com.  [Good Evening, Vietnam!] Reference

I'm definitely going to get at least one post out of the album -- despite its Dostoyevskian title, I've zeroed in on a song called "Frankenstein's Daughter" -- so FTC, please take note.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laurence Hughes: Sing Any Good Books Lately?] Reference

And while simultaneously creating a classic crime thriller, he managed to provide a wrenching, at times Dostoyevskian examination of the issues surrounding modern-day crime and punishment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bad Mothers and Alcoholic Cops: Freedomland , by Richard Price] Reference

Cent one: there are a lot of genuinely funny stories going around about students suddenly elevating their prose to Dostoyevskian levels, or their mathematical analysis to the level of Nash.    From Wordnik.com.  [May 2003 ~ Angry Bear] Reference

His books makes all the right postmodern noises, but their energy lies in their besotted relationship to an older, Dostoyevskian tradition, in which we feel the desperate impress of the confessing author, however recessed and veiled.    From Wordnik.com.  [AFTERNOON WOOD] Reference

To be fair, perhaps it needs a bearded depth of Dostoyevskian spirit truly to comprehend the feel and meaning of the vast eastern Soviet Union, just as it is the Russians Kozintsev and Nereyev who have best filmed Quixote of empty La Mancha.    From Wordnik.com.  [Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat] Reference

` ` When I was your age, '' I told her, embarking on a Dostoyevskian tragedy from the.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Reseeding Lawns, Mulch Fungus and Tomatoes] Reference

"The film, in the end, turns away from the Dostoyevskian implications of Juliette's crime and its expiation," writes.    From Wordnik.com.  [GreenCine Daily] Reference

His 1953 manga version of Crime and Punishment has pages of distinctly non-Dostoyevskian slapstick, and a cameo by a regular Tezuka character who pops up to shout his catchphrase: "Here t'meet ya!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Culture | guardian.co.uk] Reference

(I could add that somehow, the Dostoyevskian child's tear, for whose sake you would not start a violent revolution, was seldom a deterrent, and the idea of a "just war" does not seem relevant to him.).    From Wordnik.com.  [open Democracy News Analysis - Comments] Reference

Watching those tapes was a Dostoyevskian experience, not one to be quickly absorbed or easily shut out of one’s mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [HOLLYWOOD] Reference

When he beats his wife or throws the radio out the window there is, aside from the ugliness of these acts, an element of agony that falsifies their color in relation to their meaning in the play: they take on an almost Dostoyevskian aspect. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Opinion Born of Experience] Reference

If I had to choose between a society predicated on the enlightened self-interest of N.G. Chernyshevsky or on the Dostoyevskian notion that people act without purpose, I’d choose rational egoism, recognizing all the while that it represents a behavioral impossibility.    From Wordnik.com.  [What's Your Problem?] Reference

Other nihilists claim that life would be meaningless if there were no invariant moral rules that could be fully justified ” the world would be nonsensical if, in Dostoyevskian terms, “everything were permitted” ” and that such rules cannot exist for persons who can always reasonably question a given claim (Murphy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Meaning of Life] Reference

A Dostoyevskian inspired tale.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference

"Like Dostoyevskian, but drunk.".    From Wordnik.com.  [galadarling.com] Reference