Crossword-Solution: FORSYTE
We have 3 clues for the answer “FORSYTE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Galsworthy saga surname | 1 answer |
| Galsworthy's "The __ Saga" | 1 answer |
| Galsworthy's "man of property." | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETERA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with FORSYTE (5)
But no Age is so new as that! Human Nature, under its changing pretensions and clothes, is and ever will be very much of a Forsyte, and might, after all, be a much worse animal.
Looking back on the Victorian era, whose ripeness, decline, and “fall-of” is in some sort pictured in “The Forsyte Saga,” we see now that we have but jumped out of a frying-pan into a fire.
Moreover, Jolyon’s persuasion is not on his own account, but on Irene’s, and Irene’s persuasion becomes a reiterated: “Don’t think of me, think of yourself!” That Jon, knowing the facts, can realise his mother’s feelings, will hardly with justice be held proof that she is, after all, a Forsyte.
But though the impingement of Beauty and the claims of Freedom on a possessive world are the main prepossessions of the Forsyte Saga, it cannot be absolved from the charge of embalming the upper-middle class.
When a Forsyte was engaged, married, or born, the Forsytes were present; when a Forsyte died—but no Forsyte had as yet died; they did not die; death being contrary to their principles, they took precautions against it, the instinctive precautions of highly vitalized persons who resent encroachments on their property.
Quotes with FORSYTE (1)
Life was so much simpler in pre-video days when everyone refused invitations because the 'Forsyte Saga' was on. Now we all just have a long list of unwatched shows, all of which, it seems, our friends are raving about. I feel as outdated as if I wore a Fair Isle sweater, ate Pot Noodle and had a two-bar electric fire in the sitting room.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1952–2011).