All 39 Uses of
diplomat
in
War and Peace
- But I know I am no use anywhere except in the army; I am not a diplomat or a government clerk.†
Chpt 1
- You are such a diplomat that it is really tiresome," said Natasha in a mortified voice that trembled slightly.†
Chpt 1
- (She used the word "diplomat," which was just then much in vogue among the children, in the special sense they attached to it.)†
Chpt 1
- Prince Andrew stayed at Brunn with Bilibin, a Russian acquaintance of his in the diplomatic service.†
Chpt 2 *
- After washing and dressing, Prince Andrew came into the diplomat's luxurious study and sat down to the dinner prepared for him.†
Chpt 2
- Just as Prince Andrew was a young man who gave promise of rising high in the military profession, so to an even greater extent Bilibin gave promise of rising in his diplomatic career.†
Chpt 2
- He still a young man but no longer a young diplomat, as he had entered the service at the age of sixteen, had been in Paris and Copenhagen, and now held a rather important post in Vienna.†
Chpt 2
- He was not one of those many diplomats who are esteemed because they have certain negative qualities, avoid doing certain things, and speak French.†
Chpt 2
- What the diplomatic matter might be he did not care, but it gave him great pleasure to prepare a circular, memorandum, or report, skillfully, pointedly, and elegantly.†
Chpt 2
- "Why did you not succeed in impressing on Bonaparte by diplomatic methods that he had better leave Genoa alone?" retorted Prince Andrew in the same tone.†
Chpt 2
- "I confess I do not understand: perhaps there are diplomatic subtleties here beyond my feeble intelligence, but I can't make it out.†
Chpt 2
- In the study were four gentlemen of the diplomatic corps.†
Chpt 2
- * This set, consisting almost exclusively of diplomats, evidently had its own interests which had nothing to do with war or politics but related to high society, to certain women, and to the official side of the service.†
Chpt 2
- "But the best of it was," said one, telling of the misfortune of a fellow diplomat, "that the Chancellor told him flatly that his appointment to London was a promotion and that he was so to regard it.†
Chpt 2
- I asked him for you, and you have been entered in the diplomatic corps and made a Gentleman of the Bedchamber.†
Chpt 3
- The diplomatic career now lies open before you.†
Chpt 3
- The large group, in which were Prince Vasili and the generals, had the benefit of the diplomat.†
Chpt 3
- He pictured the vanity of his diplomatic career in comparison with Pierre's happiness.†
Chpt 3
- He did not find Prince Andrew in Olmutz that day, but the appearance of the town where the headquarters and the diplomatic corps were stationed and the two Emperors were living with their suites, households, and courts only strengthened his desire to belong to that higher world.†
Chpt 3
- When Boris, who was to be served up to the guests, entered the drawing room, almost all the company had assembled, and the conversation, guided by Anna Pavlovna, was about our diplomatic relations with Austria and the hope of an alliance with her.†
Chpt 5
- Bilibin was now at army headquarters in a diplomatic capacity, and though he wrote in French and used French jests and French idioms, he described the whole campaign with a fearless self-censure and self-derision genuinely Russian.†
Chpt 5
- Bilibin wrote that the obligation of diplomatic discretion tormented him, and he was happy to have in Prince Andrew a reliable correspondent to whom he could pour out the bile he had accumulated at the sight of all that was being done in the army.†
Chpt 5
- "We are not diplomatic officials, we are soldiers and nothing more," he went on.†
Chpt 5
- Young men read books before attending Helene's evenings, to have something to say in her salon, and secretaries of the embassy, and even ambassadors, confided diplomatic secrets to her, so that in a way Helene was a power.†
Chpt 6
- The diplomatic corps and the Emperor himself were to be present.†
Chpt 6
- With so intellectual a guest as she considered Prince Andrew to be, she felt that she had to employ her diplomatic tact.†
Chpt 6
- The count had devised this diplomatic ruse (as he afterwards told his daughter) to give the future sisters-in-law an opportunity to talk to one another freely, but another motive was to avoid the danger of encountering the old prince, of whom he was afraid.†
Chpt 8
- …his people's inclinations, allurement by the grandeur of the preparations, and the expenditure on those preparations and the need of obtaining advantages to compensate for that expenditure, the intoxicating honors he received in Dresden, the diplomatic negotiations which, in the opinion of contemporaries, were carried on with a sincere desire to attain peace, but which only wounded the self-love of both sides, and millions of other causes that adapted themselves to the event that was…†
Chpt 9
- Seeing, on the other side, some Cossacks (les Cosaques) and the wide-spreading steppes in the midst of which lay the holy city of Moscow (Moscou, la ville sainte), the capital of a realm such as the Scythia into which Alexander the Great had marched—Napoleon unexpectedly, and contrary alike to strategic and diplomatic considerations, ordered an advance, and the next day his army began to cross the Niemen.†
Chpt 9
- In attendance on him was the head of the imperial staff, Quartermaster General Prince Volkonski, as well as generals, imperial aides-de-camp, diplomatic officials, and a large number of foreigners, but not the army staff.†
Chpt 9
- He visited his "good friend Anna Pavlovna" as well as his daughter's "diplomatic salon," and often in his constant comings and goings between the two camps became confused and said at Helene's what he should have said at Anna Pavlovna's and vice versa.†
Chpt 10
- "I think it is delightful," he said, referring to a diplomatic note that had been sent to Vienna with some Austrian banners captured from the French by Wittgenstein, "the hero of Petropol" as he was then called in Petersburg.†
Chpt 12
- And Bilibin repeated the actual words of the diplomatic dispatch, which he had himself composed.†
Chpt 12
- During his diplomatic career he had more than once noticed that such utterances were received as very witty, and at every opportunity he uttered in that way the first words that entered his head.†
Chpt 12
- He did not lose sight either of the welfare of his army or of the doings of the enemy, or of the welfare of the people of Russia, or of the direction of affairs in Paris, or of diplomatic considerations concerning the terms of the anticipated peace.†
Chpt 13
- With regard to diplomatic questions, Napoleon summoned Captain Yakovlev, who had been robbed and was in rags and did not know how to get out of Moscow, minutely explained to him his whole policy and his magnanimity, and having written a letter to the Emperor Alexander in which he considered it his duty to inform his Friend and Brother that Rostopchin had managed affairs badly in Moscow, he dispatched Yakovlev to Petersburg.†
Chpt 13
- The historical figures at the head of armies, who formerly reflected the movement of the masses by ordering wars, campaigns, and battles, now reflected the restless movement by political and diplomatic combinations, laws, and treaties.†
Chpt 15
- Owing to various diplomatic considerations the Russian armies—just those which might have destroyed his prestige—do not appear upon the scene till he is no longer there.†
Chpt 15
- The last backwash of the movement from the west occurs: a backwash which serves to solve the apparently insuperable diplomatic difficulties and ends the military movement of that period of history.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(diplomat as in: a Chinese diplomat) a government official whose job is to represent their country in discussions with other countries