arriere-pensee
Example Sentences
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But the needy poet may have had some arrière-pensée.
From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Butler, Harold Edgeworth
It may be regarded as highly improbable that she will maintain honourably and with no arrière-pensée the obligations undertaken in the interests of German commerce in Morocco.
From Germany and the Next War by Bernhardi, Friedrich von
He said this, as he said so many other things, with a frank and bold directness that made any suspicion of an arrière-pensée almost an impossibility.
From With the Procession by Fuller, Henry Blake
He possessed a virtue rare among artists, that of gratitude without arrière-pensée.
From Human, All-Too-Human, Part II by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
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
