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Strauss   /straʊs/   Listen
Strauss

noun
1.
German composer of many operas; collaborated with librettist Hugo von Hoffmannsthal to produce several operas (1864-1949).  Synonym: Richard Strauss.
2.
Austrian composer and son of Strauss the Elder; composed many famous waltzes and became known as the 'waltz king' (1825-1899).  Synonyms: Johann Strauss, Strauss the Younger.
3.
Austrian composer of waltzes (1804-1849).  Synonyms: Johann Strauss, Strauss the Elder.



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"Strauss" Quotes from Famous Books



... Even in 1802 Napoleon in his Hamlet-like musings in the Tuileries despaired of Liberty as the safety of the world, and in his tragic course this despair adds a metaphysical touch to his doom. Five Popes have succeeded him who anointed Bonaparte, and the very era of Darwin and Strauss has been illustrated or derided by the bull, "Ineffabilis Deus," the Council of the Vatican, the thronged pilgrimages to Lourdes, and the neo-Romanism of French litterateurs. The Hellenism of Goethe was a protest against this movement, at once in its intellectual and its literary forms, the ...
— The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain - Nineteenth Century Europe • J. A. Cramb

... extraordinary that, though it has often been related, it deserves to be related again, more particularly as the whole problem which was supposed to have been solved once for all by M. Stanislas Julien, has of late been opened again by Dr. von Strauss, in the "Journal of ...
— Chips From A German Workshop, Vol. V. • F. Max Mueller

... Mr. Jordan was a Senior Executive Partner with the law firm of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP, where he remains Senior Counsel. While there Mr. Jordan practiced general, corporate, legislative, and international law in ...
— The Iraq Study Group Report • United States Institute for Peace

... of his intellect (which at this point seemed to taste a little of decrepitude), Strauss declared [1] that the doctrine of immortality has recently lost the assistance of a passable argument, inasmuch as it has been discovered that the stars are inhabited; for where, he asks, could room now be ...
— On Books and the Housing of Them • William Ewart Gladstone

... anything to distract her attention from the guests. These artistic English people are so easily shocked. They don't understand Strauss, nor indeed anything until it is quite out of date. I want to make Hell at least as attractive as it is painted; a place as well as a condition within the meaning of the Act. Full of wit, beauty, ...
— Masques & Phases • Robert Ross



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