arriere-pensee
Example Sentences
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The latter, at last, answered him, not condescendingly, as Alyosha had feared, but with modesty and reserve, with evident goodwill and apparently without the slightest arrière-pensée.
From The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
He possessed a virtue rare among artists, that of gratitude without arrière-pensée.
From Human, All-Too-Human, Part II by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
Emerson uses the word here in the same sense as the French arrière-pensée, a mental reservation.
From Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Turpin, Edna Henry Lee
He was perfectly frank and manly: he spoke without arrière-pensée, he meant what he said, and was ready to believe that other people meant it too.
From A True Friend A Novel by Sergeant, Adeline
He spoke now without the slightest arrière-pensée of flattering her, and Sylvia in her sudden burst for self-expression was unconscious of him, save as an opponent in an argument.
From The Bent Twig by Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
