Meaning of Dostoyevskeian | Babel Free

Definitions

Adjective. [C2]

Examples

“All day long and all night men tramped back and forth, Dostoyevskeian figures in rough garb—and slept there, rested and ate there, held services even.”

“But it is ungrateful to cavil at trifles when there is so much that is fine in this picture, without sombre Dostoyevskeian shadows, of a modern Prince Muishkin in New York.”

“As the depressive needs a psychoanalyst, so too does the Dostoyevskeian protagonist need divine pardon and forgiveness.”

“Cursed to tell the truth yet never to be believed, this Trojan prisoner is mocked by the Chorus and makes clear the times where she is seized by a prophetic fever as if by a holy Dostoyevskeian epilepsy.”

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