arriere-pensee

Example Sentences

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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

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

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)

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