All 3 Uses of
influential
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- Once, many years ago, I said to an influential person: 'Your wife is a ticklish lady,' in an honorable sense, of the moral qualities, so to speak.†
Chpt 2 *
- "Some years ago, soon after the coup d'etat of December, I happened to be calling in Paris on an extremely influential personage in the Government, and I met a very interesting man in his house.†
Chpt 2
- But then Kolya's mother hastened to entreat the masters on her boy's behalf, and in the end Dardanelov, a respected and influential teacher, exerted himself in his favor, and the affair was ignored.†
Chpt 10
Definition:
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(influential) having influence (the ability to affect people or events) -- especially due to respect or admiration