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- adjective Of or pertaining to Joseph Conrad (1857-1924),
Polish modernist writer, or his writings.
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Examples
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McCarthy saw all that and more in Tintin where he found "Molière style social comedy" and "Dumas-style adventure" with "Conradian boxed narratives" peppered with "Rabeleaisian obscenities."
Sandip Roy: Tintin: An Adventurer From Another Time? Sandip Roy 2011
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In place of Conradian prose poetry he gives us flat photographic rendition of a place in which no one can feel altogether at ease.
International Crime Fiction Geoffrey O'Brien 2010
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McCarthy saw all that and more in Tintin where he found "Molière style social comedy" and "Dumas-style adventure" with "Conradian boxed narratives" peppered with "Rabeleaisian obscenities."
Sandip Roy: Tintin: An Adventurer From Another Time? Sandip Roy 2011
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Again the debt is to Conrad – this is the technique which the great Conradian critic Ian Watt described as "delayed decoding".
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We also see the internecine scheming that can arise on a long, Conradian slog through hostile territory, especially when aggravated by the leader's erratic discipline and mercurial moods.
The Last Tribes Standing Gerard Helferich 2011
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McCarthy saw all that and more in Tintin where he found "Molière style social comedy" and "Dumas-style adventure" with "Conradian boxed narratives" peppered with "Rabeleaisian obscenities."
Sandip Roy: Tintin: An Adventurer From Another Time? Sandip Roy 2011
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It also heightens O'Neill's Conradian awareness of the sea as a tragic force which shapes human destinies: something that becomes rivetingly clear at the climax and rescues it from sentimentality.
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My father stalked the bridge like a trainee version of the grizzled Captain McWhirr in Conrad's Typhoon, or a general sort of Conradian amalgam, grimly breasting aside Fate, thinking how nice it would be if only he could harbour some dark secret or had some hidden flaw which a crisis would fatally show up.
'Germania: In Wayward Pursuit of the Germans and Their History' 2010
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My father stalked the bridge like a trainee version of the grizzled Captain McWhirr in Conrad's Typhoon, or a general sort of Conradian amalgam, grimly breasting aside Fate, thinking how nice it would be if only he could harbour some dark secret or had some hidden flaw which a crisis would fatally show up.
'Germania: In Wayward Pursuit of the Germans and Their History' 2010
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My father stalked the bridge like a trainee version of the grizzled Captain McWhirr in Conrad's Typhoon, or a general sort of Conradian amalgam, grimly breasting aside Fate, thinking how nice it would be if only he could harbour some dark secret or had some hidden flaw which a crisis would fatally show up.
'Germania: In Wayward Pursuit of the Germans and Their History' 2010
Louises commented on the word Conradian
Becoming a wereolf had nearly destroyed her, but hadn't. Thus she'd discovered the Conradian truth: The first horror is there's horror. The second is you accommodate it. From "The Last Werewolf" by Glen Duncan.
March 8, 2012