Candide in a sentence

Mistaking Candide for a Jesuit by his robes, the Oreillons prepare to cook Candide and Cacambo; however, Cacambo convinces the Oreillons that Candide killed a Jesuit to procure the robe.

A simple example of the satire of Candide is seen in the treatment of the historic event witnessed by Candide and Martin in Portsmouth harbour.

Bottiglia (1951), p. 726 Within debates attempting to decipher the conclusion of Candide lies another primary Candide debate.

Candide's remaining sheep are stolen, and Candide is fined heavily by a Dutch magistrate for petulance over the theft.

Davidson (2005), pp. 52–53 The complicated science of calculating the relative publication dates of all of the versions of Candide is described at length in Wade's article "The First Edition of Candide: A Problem of Identification".

Indeed, writers have seen Voltaire as speaking through at least Candide, Martin, and the Turk. Wolper argues that Candide should be read with a minimum of speculation as to its meaning in Voltaire's personal life.

It was at least partly based on Voltaire's Candide, although the actual influence of Candide on Candido is a hotly debated topic.

It was because of such polemics that Omer-Louis-François Joly de Fleury, who was Advocate General to the Parisian parliament when Candide was published, found parts of Candide to be "contrary to religion and morals".

This work is similar to Candide in subject matter, but very different from it in style: the Poème embodies a more serious philosophical argument than Candide.

Voltaire, Candide and Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne Voltaire also includes the earthquake/theodicy theme in his novel, Candide.

When Candide proclaims he intends to marry Cunégonde, her brother attacks him, and Candide stabs him through with his rapier.

South Florida Symphony Orchestra will present its premiere of Leonard Bernstein’s Candide on Jan.

The term Panglossian originates from Voltaire’s satire Candide, in which the character, Pangloss, is always overly optimistic.

Among others already committed are Candide’s John Winter Russell, Manitoba’s Simon Mathis, Impasto’s Michele Forgione and St. James Hotel’s Éric Gonzalez.

Mr. Yemi Candide-Johnson (SAN) believed the issue of who leads the Senate or House of Representatives is political and has no serious implication on the rule of law.

The piece gets its name from Voltaire’s “Candide,” a satire that catalogs the continuous misfortunes of the titular character.

According to Bottiglia, "The physical size of Candide, as well as Voltaire's attitude toward his fiction, precludes the achievement of artistic dimension through plenitude, autonomous '3D' vitality, emotional resonance, or poetic exaltation.

Aldridge (1975), p. 255 Satire The main method of Candide ' s satire is to contrast ironically great tragedy and comedy.

Aldridge (1975), p. 260 As expected by Voltaire, Candide has enjoyed both great success and great scandal.

Almost all of Candide is a discussion of various forms of evil: its characters rarely find even temporary respite.