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Dostoevskian

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prop. adj.1.of or pertaining to Fyodor Dostoevski.
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Adj.1.Dostoevskian - of or relating to or in the style of Feodor Dostoevski

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Yet--maybe because I could feel m yself literally growing old during the six-hour screening--I bristled at its pretentious appropriation of Mozart's music and short, tragic life (recounted by a teary narrator) as an allegory of human suffering, and its grandiose Dostoevskian declamations.
It's just that this Dostoevskian chamber piece, about a reclusive death camp survivor who uses puppets to re-enact the appalling crimes that the Nazis visited on humanity, has the power to move and unsettle an audience in purely visual terms.
I have committed the ultimate crime of being a landlord and will receive the just punishment I deserve in our Dostoevskian city.
 
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