Faust

in a sentence

I want my students notonly to agree with me that, indeed, Mr. Lindner is an instance of the demonic tempter offering Walter Lee Younger a Faustian bargain; I want them to be able to reach that conclusion without me.†  (source) Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor, 2003

The first one, Faust the Dog, was written by a man named Mattheus Ottleberg.†  (source) Markus Zusak, The Book Thief, 2005

Or Mephistopheles—in Goethe's Faust 'Was soil uns denn das ew'ge Schaffen!†  (source) Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World, 1991

"Mr. and Mrs. Faust," Inspector Williams said, "I'm afraid we have two uncooperative children."†  (source) Rick Riordan, The Red Pyramid, 2010

The chief difference between Hansberry's version of the Faustian bargain and others is that Walter Lee ultimately resists the satanic temptation.†  (source) Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor, 2003

Thus, casually, begins Lonesome Dove, by far my most popular novel, and one that allows me to join the small company of "respectable" writers whose fiction deals with the American West: Cormac McCarthy, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Tom Lee and a handful of others, below whom comes the vast desert of the pulpers, the sons and daughters of Max Brand (Frederick Faust), Louis L'Amour and many hundreds of others.†  (source) Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove, 1985

"Keep this colt right up with Faust as close as you can," he later recalled telling the jockey.†  (source) Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit, 2001

I understood why this stuff is so deadly, so insufferably false, even in Faust.†  (source) Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago, 1958

A number of years ago when I would go from my farm up to Lubeck—I was quite young at the time—I saw a silent film version of Faust in which the woman who played Gretchen was unbelievably beautiful and made a deep impression on me.†  (source) William Styron, Sophie's Choice, 1976

' " They played potsy, humming "The Soldiers' Chorus" from Faust which they called "Glory.†  (source) Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, 1943

Ever read Faust?†  (source) Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead, 1943

This is the guiding power that runs through the work of Dante in the female figures of Beatrice and the Virgin, and appears in Goethe's Faust successively as Gretchen, Helen of Troy, and the Virgin.†  (source) Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces, 1949

He believes, like Faust, that two souls are far too many for a single breast and must tear the breast asunder.†  (source) Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf, 1926