When your stable of bikes can be described as Proustian it may be time to start thinning the proverbial herd. From Wordnik.com. [Multiples: How Much Is Too Much?] Reference
Often referred to as a Proustian painter because he painted from memory rather than from life, Bonnard is even more a Jamesian one. From Wordnik.com. [The Nation: Top Stories] Reference
I remembered, and my heart leaped with a kind of Proustian joy while Time tolled about me like a bell. From Wordnik.com. [The Courts of Chaos]
I mean they're also kind of Proustian, because you're dealing with moments of consciousness. From Wordnik.com. Reference
To suggest - as some critics have - that the memoir owes its power to "Proustian" overtones is ridiculous. From Wordnik.com. [Books, Inq. — The Epilogue] Reference
BD: Prine's stuff is pure Proustian existentialism. From Wordnik.com. [Bob Dylan talks about songwriters] Reference
"Seeing it now it's a Proustian Madeleine," he said. From Wordnik.com. [American Ballet's 'Nutcracker' Opening] Reference
I am too far for touch, too near for Proustian telescopy. From Wordnik.com. [Commonplace: How am I to lose myself once again among the stones of Aran?] Reference
A whiff of lavender and mint that is my own Proustian delight. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt: The Communist's Daughter by Dennis Bock] Reference
And I think this was sort of my Proustian tea-dipped madeleine. From Wordnik.com. [Wry Martinis] Reference
The Mets advanced, inspiring Proustian memories of Mookie Wilson. From Wordnik.com. [Ratfink Writes New Book: James Wolcott] Reference
I commend your excellent use of “Proustian” as a descriptor here. From Wordnik.com. [brownie roll-out cookies | smitten kitchen] Reference
The man who put the pickle in that cheeseburger was a Proustian genius. From Wordnik.com. [Starbucks Nation] Reference
Some pretentious Proustian said "I live the life of the mind" the other day. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-07-16] Reference
The smell of them gives me that Proustian transportation to canoeing memories. From Wordnik.com. [Plane trees and Pratt] Reference
Not exactly a Proustian madeleine, but hey, it was fun to roll down memory lane. From Wordnik.com. [UNHINGED|| The Hump-Day Threesome: Where Is My Mind?] Reference
Lael - hope your birthday digestives brought back a memory or two, Proustian-style. From Wordnik.com. [Digestive Biscuits] Reference
Prose and Potatoes: A Proustian Moment with Pad Thai skip to main | skip to sidebar. From Wordnik.com. [A Proustian Moment with Pad Thai] Reference
It was Proustian; a lot of them I associated with certain people or places and times. From Wordnik.com. [anne-jumps Diary Entry] Reference
So people will talk about the long periods of Proustian, the convolutions of Henry James. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Devils of Nada: A Contemporary American Approach to Aesthetic Statement] Reference
It was all very Proustian, Remembrances of Guilty Pleasures Past and all that good stuff. From Wordnik.com. [Sundays at Tiffany's]
When I looked, it gave me an almost Proustian rush, I had been here so often in my dreams. From Wordnik.com. [Terra Incognita]
This almost Proustian recollection was, according to the texts, a turning point for Gotama. From Wordnik.com. [Buddha]
Forgive me for using this over-tired metaphor, but they were an almost Proustian experience. From Wordnik.com. [brownie roll-out cookies | smitten kitchen] Reference
She would giggle, the flan would jiggle, and for a Proustian moment all was right in the world. From Wordnik.com. [Brad Taylor Negron: My Mother] Reference
He also understands the power of music and uses songs to trigger memory with Proustian precision. From Wordnik.com. [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference
For Robert Jordan, in Ernest Hemingway's "For Whom the Bell Tolls," absinthe is a bite of Proustian cake. From Wordnik.com. [Sampling Absinthe's Dubious Charms] Reference
You can be Proustian and remember the foods of the past or you can be like Twain, who adored and demanded them. From Wordnik.com. [Ellen Kanner: Meatless Monday: Remembrance of Things Past? Saving Vanishing Regional Food] Reference
Each of Mr. Beal's 81 little squares has its own color and a verbal description redolent of a Proustian memory. From Wordnik.com. [On West 53rd Street,] Reference
In his novel Those Days (1981), a detailed, Proustian study of 19th-century Calcutta, Sunil Gangopadhyay writes. From Wordnik.com. [Oh! Kolkata!] Reference
Deron, this post triggered a Proustian remembrance of a birthday gift I was inspired to bring into being back in the wayback days. From Wordnik.com. [what should I title this post? | clusterflock] Reference
One of my favorites, though I completely recognize that it's more of a Proustian nostalgia thing that a concrete flavor assessment. From Wordnik.com. [Goodbye, Spring League 2010] Reference
Both books start with the family: Brando's in Proustian fashion as he evokes the sights, sounds and smells of his Nebraska childhood. From Wordnik.com. [Brando Speaks] Reference
But the relationship between reading and writing is rarely so clear-cut, and in fact my first novel could hardly have been less Proustian. From Wordnik.com. [Close Reading] Reference
(Trevor found a Proustian double-peacock bench at Steinitz in Paris to set against it.). From Wordnik.com. [Style.com: Daily Fashion Show Pictures] Reference
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