All 27 Uses
malice
in
The Magic Mountain
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- You mean malicious.†
Chpt 3.4
- Yes, I am a little malicious," Settembrini said.†
Chpt 3.4
- My great worry is that I have been condemned to waste my malice on such miserable objects.†
Chpt 3.4malice = the desire to hurt others or see them suffer
- I hope that you have nothing against malice, my good engineer.†
Chpt 3.4
- Malice, sir, is the spirit of criticism, and criticism marks the origin of progress and enlightenment.†
Chpt 3.4
- You remarked that I speak maliciously, but if I have done so, then it was not without a pedagogic purpose.†
Chpt 3.4 *maliciously = with a desire to see others suffer; or in a threatening manner
- His tablemates broke into peals of laughter as he sat down—presumably he had made one of his malicious remarks.†
Chpt 3.5
- That might have been malice or hot air; but nevertheless he did not feel particularly fortified by the thought of Director Behrens.†
Chpt 4.9malice = the desire to hurt others or see them suffer
- On the contrary, it was better out there, incomparably more comfortable, by any criterion the most agreeable state of affairs that Hans Castorp could remember ever having tried out—a judgment from which he could not be dissuaded by some writer and Carbonaro who made malicious remarks with snide connotations about the "horizontal life."†
Chpt 4.10
- It had been a prank, a rather brash one, and in Joachim's eyes there was probably a trace of treachery and malice about it—Hans Castorp was well aware of that.†
Chpt 5.4malice = the desire to hurt others or see them suffer
- Freedom is the law of brotherly love, not of nihilism and malice.†
Chpt 6.2
- Too polite to say what he thought, he confined himself to remarks concerning errors in proportion and anatomical defects in the figures; such offenses against the truth of nature did not come close to moving him, he said, since they were based not on any primitive lack of skill but arose out of willful malice, out of an antagonistic principle.†
Chpt 6.3
- And Naphta maliciously agreed, saying that it certainly was not a question of any lack of technical skill.†
Chpt 6.3maliciously = with a desire to see others suffer; or in a threatening manner
- If exposed to the influences of this half-fanatic, half-malicious humbug, both your minds and souls are in danger.†
Chpt 6.3
- A caustic, tormented spirituality drifted toward him in those words; probing deeper, he discovered both knowledge and a maliciously elegant mode of thought—all the more surprising, given the young man's tattered exterior.†
Chpt 6.6maliciously = with a desire to see others suffer; or in a threatening manner
- His days and part of his nights were filled with operationes spirituales, with examinations of conscience, with introspection, deliberation, and mediation, and he went about it with such malicious, peevish passion that he found himself ensnared in a thousand difficulties, contradictions, and disputes.†
Chpt 6.6
- If the Spirit was willfully malicious, one had no recourse but to turn to the body, which one could get hold of.†
Chpt 6.6
- The one is voluptuous and malicious, and the other is forever tooting his little horn of reason and even imagines he can stare madmen back to sanity—how preposterous, how philistine!†
Chpt 6.7
- For Naphta, in response to what had admittedly been something of a challenge, immediately went on the attack, impugning the Latin poet whom Settembrini, as they all knew, idolized, indeed ranked above Homer; whereas on more than one occasion Naphta had shown a caustic disregard of Virgil and of the Latin poets in general—and promptly and maliciously used this opportunity to do so again.†
Chpt 6.8maliciously = with a desire to see others suffer; or in a threatening manner
- We walk and walk along the light springy beach strewn with seaweed and tiny shells, our ears swathed by the wind, by the great, ample, mild wind that passes freely through space, unencumbered and without malice, filling our heads with a gentle numbness—we wander, wander and watch the roiling sea send tongues of onrushing foam to lick our feet and fall back again.†
Chpt 7.1malice = the desire to hurt others or see them suffer
- Someone wants to be malicious, sarcastic.†
Chpt 7.3
- And last and subtlest of all, there was a gentle malice that was hard to define, but which she, with a woman's heightened awareness, surely had to feel drifting toward her from both adversaries, Settembrini and Naphta (and indeed her Mardi Gras cavalier felt it as well), and which had its origin in their relationship to Hans Castorp: the pedagogue's inherent ill will toward women as a disruptive and distracting element, a silent and primal hostility that united the two men by abrogating their intense pedagogic rivalry.†
Chpt 7.4malice = the desire to hurt others or see them suffer
- Hans Castorp looked around him—and what he saw was indeed uncanny and malicious.†
Chpt 7.6
- AND AS ONE LITTLE YEAR succeeded another, a ghost began to walk the Berghof, one whom Hans Castorp suspected was a direct descendent of that demon we have already called by its malicious name.†
Chpt 7.9
- The man's name was Sonnenschein; and since one could not have a filthier name than that, from Wiedemann's very first day here Sonnenschein became the tassel in front of his nose, at which he squinted furtively and maliciously, batting at it with his hand, less to push it aside than to start it swinging so that it could annoy him all the more.†
Chpt 7.9maliciously = with a desire to see others suffer; or in a threatening manner
- And although he did not spare Herr Settembrini, but let the Italian worry that he found Naphta's malice worth listening to, he nevertheless had to admit that it was now out of control, indeed often went beyond the bounds of a sane, healthy mind.†
Chpt 7.9malice = the desire to hurt others or see them suffer
- Naphta's malice lay in ambush for any opportunity to detect weaknesses in a theory of progress that tried to bend nature to its will; he loved to catch its agents and pioneers taking very human steps backward into irrationality.†
Chpt 7.9
Definitions:
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(1)
(malice) the intention or desire to see others suffer
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)