Meaning of Dostoievskeian | Babel Free

Definitions

Adjective. [C2]

Examples

“No more extravagantly wayward great lady than Maria del Pílar Teresa Cayetana, thirteenth Duchess of Alba, treads the eighteenth-century stage⟳, and no imperious great lady (her principal enemy being the Queen, and to a lesser extent Godoy) more democratic in her waywardness; for the distinctive mark⟳ of Baroquism in the latter half of this century is that curious semi-exhibitionist, semi-expiatory, quasi-Dostoievskeian craving on the nobility’s part to share⟳ the companionship, the caprices, and even the costume of the proletariat.”

“Donald McWhinnie is unable to resolve⟳ these basic difficulties, but with Eric Porter and Irene Worth, excellently backed by the Banquo of Peter Jeffrey, absolutely straight and honest himself yet quickly alert to Macbeth’s deviousness, he gave the audience an enthralling sojourn in the macabre world—at times almost Dostoievskeian—of human greed, fear, crime, remorse and punishment.”

“This liveliness is in large measure⟳ due to the impact on a Donegal mind⟳ of the big city, with its Dostoievskeian characters and its racial and political problems seen in a new light⟳.”

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