Crossword-Solution: CELIMENE
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| Coquette in "Le Misanthrope." | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which
covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
CARNOE
Hint 3 another clue
COVER THE EYES
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Sentences with CELIMENE (5)
Celimene is undisputed mistress of the same attribute in the Misanthrope; wiser as a woman than Alceste as man.
Millamant side by side with Celimene is an example of how far the realistic painting of a character can be carried to win our favour; and of where it falls short.
Why will he not continue to mix with the world smoothly, appeased by the flattery of her secret and really sincere preference of him, and taking his revenge in satire of it, as she does from her own not very lofty standard, and will by and by do from his more exalted one? Celimene is worldliness: Alceste is unworldliness.
His proposal to Celimene when he pardons her, that she should follow him in flying humankind, and his frenzy of detestation of her at her refusal, are thoroughly in the mood of Jean Jacques.
But the condition of honest women in his day did not permit of the freedom of action and fencing dialectic of a Celimene, and consequently it is below our mark of pure Comedy.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1945).