fuhrer

Example Sentences

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One of his former students implored him to "abandon yourself to your feelings, and you must always focus on the Fuhrer's greatness, rather than on the discomfort you are feeling at present".

From Salon

That is the context in which a few opera companies have changed a word in Lohengrin’s final line, when he declares, at the magical return of Elsa’s brother, that the people’s “Führer,” or leader, has arrived.

From New York Times

Kanye West has lately proclaimed himself a devotee of the late Führer, a somewhat incongruous viewpoint in light of Nazi racial policies.

From Salon

Yet the erasure of “Führer” is a missed opportunity.

From New York Times

And if we’re rooting out Nazi associations in “Lohengrin,” why stop at “Führer”? Early in the opera, ominous reference is made to armed action against the German “Reich,” and stentorian choral “heils” proliferate, like something out of the propaganda film “Triumph of the Will.”

From New York Times