Example sentences for: viennese

How can you use “viennese” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • He tells of Hitler's love of romantic poetry and "creamy Viennese cakes"--the only exceptions, apparently, to his unyielding asceticism--and speculates, in ponderous footnotes studded with citations from Kierkegaard, on the theological nature of evil.

  • Although Schnitzler wrote Traumnovelle when he was partially deaf and had withdrawn from the world, he chose to set the novella a quarter-century earlier, at the fabled Viennese fin de siècle , when Freud was spinning out NC-17-ish interpretations of dreams (he and Schnitzler were correspondents) and Schnitzler himself was attempting to beat Casanova's record for the most orgasms with the most women.

  • The Berlin Philharmonic asserted an international prestige, attracting Tchaikovsky, Strauss, and Grieg as guest composers, and in 1905, the great Viennese director Max Reinhardt arrived to head the Deutsches Theater.

  • (Biographies tell us she was fascinated at the time by the ideas of Otto Weininger, a morbid Viennese philosopher who believed women were stupid and corrupt banshees.

  • In Bettelheim: A Life and a Legacy (1996), she follows a resourceful Hansel figure as he struggles to escape a dark Viennese forest and find fame in America, "dropping little white pebbles along his path."


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