Crossword-Solution: SEVASTOPOL
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| Black Sea naval base, near Yalta. | 1 answer |
| Former Russian naval base. | 1 answer |
| Nazi "Dunkerque." | 1 answer |
| Russian city taken by Germans. | 1 answer |
| Russian seaport. | 3 answers |
| Crimean seaport | 4 answers |
| Black Sea city | 4 answers |
| CRIMEAN port | 10 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings,
whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by
a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the
body.
Hint 2 anagram
OONMETI
Hint 3 another clue
A FEELING OF GREAT ELATION
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Sentences with SEVASTOPOL (5)
Their eyes would flash—their teeth would grind— Their lips would tightly curl— They’d say, “Thy way thyself must find, Thou misdirecting churl!” And, similarly, also, when He tried a foreign friend; Italians answered, “_Il balen_”— The French, “No comprehend.” The Russ would say with gleaming eye “Sevastopol!” and groan.
The poor gentleman, after having played a certain part in the reaction after the Revolution of 1848, by the publication of a sensational pamphlet entitled Le Spectre Rouge, died of grief at the death of a son who was killed at Sevastopol.
The difference between the early and later Tolstoi is not, then, a difference in mental viewpoint, it is a difference in conduct and action.* The eternal moral law of self-sacrifice was revealed to him in letters of fire when he wrote "The Cossacks" and "Sevastopol;" everything that he wrote after was a mere amplification and additional emphasis.
Throughout this book, as in all Tolstoi's work, is the eternal question WHY? For what purpose is life, and to what end am I living? What is the real meaning of human ambition and human effort? Tolstoi's reputation as an artist quite rightly began with the publication of the three Sevastopol stories, "Sevastopol in December" [1854], "Sevastopol in May, Sevastopol in August." This is the work, not of a promising youth, but of a master.
The Russian novelist stood in the midst of the flying shells, and how little did any one then realise that his own escape from death was an event of far greater importance to the world than the outcome of the war! There is little patriotic feeling in "Sevastopol," and its success was artistic rather than political.
Quotes with SEVASTOPOL (1)
In Russia, the person who put Sevastopol on the literary map was Leo Tolstoy, a veteran of the siege. His fictionalized memoir The Sebastopol Sketches made him a national celebrity. Already with the first installment of the work published, Tsar Alexander II saw the propaganda value of the piece and ordered it translated into French for dissemination abroad. That made the young author very happy. Compared with Tolstoy’s later novels, The Sebastopol Sketches hasn’t aged well, p…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1942–2008).