Dostoyevskyian

English

Adjective

Dostoyevskyian (comparative more Dostoyevskyian, superlative most Dostoyevskyian)

1. Alternative form of Dostoyevskian
   • 1941, Michael Gold, The Hollow Men, International Publishers, page 78:

     However, if you have an ear for psychological nuances, you can hear something deeper beneath this naïve “political” question. Something “Dostoyevskyian” has happened to Mr. Hicks.

   • 1966, Fuad Nucho, Berdyaev’s Philosophy: The Existential Paradox of Freedom and Necessity, a Critical Study, Anchor Books, pages 28, 30:

     It is here in these turbulent waters that we come to the Dostoyevskyian paradox: on the one hand, Dostoyevsky cannot accept a world with unmerited suffering, and on the other hand, he cannot accept a world without conflict and suffering.

   • 1985, Leslie Woolf Hedley, XYZ & Other Stories, Exile Press, →ISBN, page 9:

     "Now!" he snapped at me, all Dostoyevskyian temper.

   • 1989, Fanfare, volume 13, page 283:

     And Prokofiev does this, in typical Dostoyevskyian fashion, more by daring juxtaposition than by careful development of his musical ideas, ideas that alternately support and undermine the surface events in the text.

   • 1997, Indian Journal of American Studies, volume 27, page 4, column 1:

     A respected member of the clergy and the community, Dimmesdale is a wonderful study in psychology anticipating the dark Dostoyevskyian reflections.

   • 2005, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, editor, The Enigma of Good and Evil: The Moral Sentiment in Literature (Analecta Husserliana: The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research; Volume LXXXV), Springer, →ISBN, page 391:

     The Dostoyevskyian pilgrimage does not lead to definitive cognitive insights, but to temporary changes of attitudes toward ourselves and especially those near us. […] In Dostoyevskyian journeys underworld, the heart awakens for the suffering of our neighbors.