Crossword-Solution: LESSING
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| LESSING | anagram | ESSLING, SINGLES |
We have 7 clues for the answer “LESSING”
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| 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature winner Doris | 1 answer |
| Doris who won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature | 1 answer |
| German dramatist-critic: 1729-81 | 1 answer |
| She wrote "Children of Violence" | 1 answer |
| German people poet | 3 answers |
| poet German people | 3 answers |
| German dramatist. | 3 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REATE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with LESSING (5)
Lessing has advanced excellent reasons for supposing that the Martians have actually succeeded in effecting a landing on the planet Venus.
Even as late as the beginning of the eighteenth century, when Christian Thomasius, the greatest and bravest German between Luther and Lessing, began the efforts which put an end to it in Protestant Germany, he did not dare at first, bold as he was, to attack it in his own name, but presented his views as the university thesis of an irresponsible student.(258) (258) For Thomasius, see his various bigraphies by Luden and others; also the treatises on witchcraft by Soldan and others.
That purification and spiritualising of the nature which he calls κάθαρσις is, as Goethe saw, essentially æsthetic, and is not moral, as Lessing fancied.
There appear such modest items as "The history of the Christian Church up to the Reformation"--"all Greek poetry"--"The field of Mediaeval Romance"--"German literature from Lessing to Heine"--"Dante!" Not one of these shall I ever "know, and know well"; not any one of them.
Spinoza, in the seventeenth century, and Lessing, in the eighteenth, were men far in advance of their age.
Quotes with LESSING (3)
How often since then has she wondered what might have happened if she'd tried to remain with him; if she’d returned Richard's kiss on the corner of Bleeker and McDougal, gone off somewhere (where?) with him, never bought the packet of incense or the alpaca coat with rose-shaped buttons. Couldn’t they have discovered something larger and stranger than what they've got. It is impossible not to imagine that other future, that rejected future, as taking place in Italy or France, …
It had seemed like the beginning of happiness, and Clarissa is still sometimes shocked, more than thirty years later to realize that it was happiness; that the entire experience lay in a kiss and a walk. The anticipation of dinner and a book. The dinner is by now forgotten; Lessing has been long overshadowed by other writers. What lives undimmed in Clarissa's mind more than three decades later is a kiss at dusk on a patch of dead grass, and a walk around a pond as mosquitoes …
Choosing a book is so gratifying, it’s worth dragging out the process, starting even before finishing the current one. As the final chapters approach, you can pile up the possibilities like a stack of travel brochures. You can lay out three books and let them linger overnight before making a final decision in the morning. You can Google the reviews; ask other people if they’ve read it, collect information. The choice may ultimately depend on the mood and the moment. ‘You have…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, Onion.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1964–2019).