arriere-pensee
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
As a matter of fact, there was an arrière-pensée underlying his words.
From 'Tween Snow and Fire A Tale of the Last Kafir War by Mitford, Bertram
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.