Crossword-Solution: MARIVAUDAGE
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Hint 1 meaning
To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and
rolling, with noise.
Hint 2 anagram
OAPWLL
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Sentences with MARIVAUDAGE (5)
That Marivaux is a mannerist is so universally acknowledged in France, that the peculiar term of _marivaudage_ has been invented for his mannerism.
The "marivaudage" of Marivaux is sometimes a refined and novel mode of expressing delicate shades and half-shades of feeling; sometimes an over-refined or over-subtle attempt to express ingenuities of sentiment, and the result is then frigid, pretentious, or pedantic.
Sangrado; and the Archbishop of Granada--to mention only the most famous and hackneyed matters--are still things a little larger, a little more complex, a little more eternal and true, than webs of uninteresting analysis told in phrase to which Marivaudage itself is golden and honeyed Atticism.
Although there is plenty of incident, it is but a dull book, and it contains not a trace of "Marivaudage" in style.
This is a great thing to say for Marivaux, and it can be said without the slightest fear of inability to support the saying.[334] [Sidenote: Marivaux and Richardson--"Marivaudage."] Although, therefore, we may not care much to enter into calculations as to the details of the indebtedness of Richardson to Marivaux, some approximations of the two, for critical purposes, may be useful.