(n.) The hero of a mediaeval French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it is forbidden to investigate.
Example Sentences:
(1) Three productions that had been scheduled for later this season are being scrapped: Johann Christian Bach's Endimione, Bartok's Bluebeard's Castle and Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro.
(2) This is an all-too-typical attitude when it comes to Plath: that outsiders know better, maybe even feel more, than those she left behind, especially Hughes, who is often restyled as the Bluebeard of English literature.
(3) His work in opera is quite limited to date – he is currently working at the Coliseum on ENO’s forthcoming Tristan and Isolde , which opens in June, but his previous experience consists of half a dozen shows, two for ENO – Birtwistle’s Punch and Judy at the Young Vic , and Bartók’s Duke Bluebeard’s Castle in the main house – together with Carmen for Opera North , Rufus Wainwright’s Prima Donna in Manchester and Pelléas et Melisande and Die Zauberflöte elsewhere in Europe.
(4) In 2009, he directed Bartok’s only opera, Duke Bluebeard’s Castle, at the Coliseum and is currently directing Tristan and Isolde for ENO, opening in June.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Clive Bayley and Michaela Martens in Duke Bluebeard’s Castle, directed by Daniel Kramer at ENO in 2009.
(6) Although Chabrol identified himself more with the latter, he was obviously attracted by the Paul characters: psychopathic serial killers such as the outwardly benign butcher Popaul (Jean Yanne) in Le Boucher (The Butcher, 1970), the mild hatter (Michel Serrault) in Les Fantômes du Chapelier (The Hatter's Ghost, 1982), Landru (Bluebeard, 1962) and the motorcyclist who brings love and death in Les Bonnes Femmes (1960).
Nobleman
Definition:
(n.) One of the nobility; a noble; a peer; one who enjoys rank above a commoner, either by virtue of birth, by office, or by patent.
Example Sentences:
(1) This finished with a concert performance of the finale from Fidelio, Beethoven's only opera, which tells the story of a nobleman, Florestan, who is rescued from prison by his wife dressed as a prison guard, Fidelio.
(2) A new allele (C3*F0.35) was detected in a Chinese individual and in a nobleman from Bali.
(3) "I can't separate the business from the personal," he grumps over a shot of an oil painting depicting him as a jubilant 18th-century nobleman surrounded by his children's whooping disembodied heads.
(4) This paper presents and explains an early clinical discussion of the case of a young nobleman who had developed a severe speech impediment associated with anxiety.
(5) This note concerns the analysis of a work written in the early years of the century by a discredited Polish nobleman.
(6) There is the terrible gaffe he makes which sets the whole terrible train of events in motion (it's a small train, admittedly, but big enough to cause havoc); there is his initial impression that Kekesfalva is a genuine venerable Hungarian nobleman, that Condor is a bumpkin and a fool; and, in one splendidly subtle piece of writing, in which an interior state of mind is beautifully translated into memorable yet familiar imagery, he imagines himself to be better put together than Condor, when they walk out in bright moonlight on the night of their first meeting: And as we walked down the apparently snow-covered gravel drive, suddenly we were not two but four, for our shadows went ahead of us, clear-cut in the bright moonlight.
(7) "They seek the secret of the Grail," gasps carbuncular nobleman Bertrand, as swarms of rhubarbing crusaders prepare to storm his ramparts.
(8) The head of a once noble house, which he inherited from a great nobleman.
(9) The pool is spring-fed and there’s lots of local mystery surrounding it.” A woodcutter’s daughter, for example, is said to have met a tragic fate after being so scared by a nobleman on a horse that she swam into deeper water and drowned.
(10) Oscar nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor will play the sorcerous nobleman Baron Mordo opposite Benedict Cumberbatch in Marvel Studios’ forthcoming superhero epic Doctor Strange, reports Deadline .
(11) This was more like a scene in a Shakespeare play where a nobleman switches places with his servant.
(12) Ultimately, she ditches Severin for a hot-headed Greek nobleman.
(13) Olof af Acrel, the father of Swedish Surgery, operated in 1768 upon a young nobleman who had experienced an increasing swelling on the skull, due to a tumour which also turned out to be growing deep into the brain parenchyma.
(14) A married woman with a 12-year-old son is bored of her life and succumbs to a fling with a predatory nobleman; another woman is terrorised into blackmail by someone she assumes is the other "kept woman" of her lover; a doctor asks for sexual favours from the woman who has come to him for a secret abortion.
(15) In the second book of the Essais towards the end of the twelfth chapter Montaigne mentions a nobleman who does not take note of his blindness.
(16) So Mason could be lord and nobleman, a very upper-class fellow - he did that from his Flaubert in the silly MGM production of Madame Bovary to Brutus in the same studio's Julius Caesar, from Mr Jordan in Heaven Can Wait to the "prince of darkness" lawyer, Ed Concannon, in The Verdict.
(17) Goodwin Wharton (1653-1704) was a nobleman's son and a Whig MP who played no small part in English public life.
(18) Born in 1745 in the town of Como in what is now northern Italy, Volta was the son of a nobleman.