arriere-pensee

Example Sentences

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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

And I watched him tip the waiter without the least arrière-pensée on either side.

From Mr. Justice Raffles by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)

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

But the needy poet may have had some arrière-pensée.

From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Butler, Harold Edgeworth

Tintoretto communicated his own savage grandeur, his own unrest, to those whom he depicted; Paolo Veronese charmed without arrière-pensée by the intensity of vitality which with perfect simplicity he preserved in his sitters.

From The Later Works of Titian by Phillips, Claude