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  • adjective Of or pertaining to the Irish poet and dramatist William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) or his writings.

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Yeats +‎ -ian

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Examples

  • Despite its Yeatsian title, The Center Cannot Hold, Saks 'memoir calls to mind the poetry of the Romantics more than it does a tale about an apocalyptic time when "the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity."

    Robert David Jaffee: Elyn Saks: Recovery Of A Genius 2009

  • She was instrumental in modernizing the highly reputed but old-fashioned theater, which had been languishing in a moribund Yeatsian naturalistic theatrical language.

    Tanya Moiseiwitsch. 2009

  • Still, regardless of your political persuasion, it's been hard to escape that Yeatsian "things falling apart" feeling over the last couple of years, hasn't it?

    Posterity is just around the corner Matthew Guerrieri 2006

  • But if it doesn't, and a Yeatsian anarchy continues to be loosed upon the financial system, investors should expect some drastic responses from the government.

    Stemming the Crimson Tide 2008

  • Still, regardless of your political persuasion, it's been hard to escape that Yeatsian "things falling apart" feeling over the last couple of years, hasn't it?

    Archive 2006-11-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2006

  • But de Man provides an alternative "tracing," an alternative history within Yeats's oeuvre, reading the passage in question as, in Yeatsian terms, an emblem rather than an image (corresponding roughly to the distinction between allegory and symbol in the vocabulary of Romantic theory and in general).

    History against Historicism, Formal Matters, and the Event of the Text: De Man with Benjamin 2005

  • And Raine really does have the Yeatsian skill of mythologising his own story against a no-less mythologised picture of his own times.

    03.04 M-mv 2004

  • And Raine really does have the Yeatsian skill of mythologising his own story against a no-less mythologised picture of his own times.

    03.04 M-mv 2004

  • And Raine really does have the Yeatsian skill of mythologising his own story against a no-less mythologised picture of his own times.

    G'morning! M-mv 2004

  • And Raine really does have the Yeatsian skill of mythologising his own story against a no-less mythologised picture of his own times.

    02.04 M-mv 2004

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