Definitions for Tolstoy

Tolstoy Tol·stoy

Spelling: [tohl-stoi, tol-; Russian tuhl-stoi]
IPA: /ˈtoʊl stɔɪ, ˈtɒl-; Russian tʌlˈstɔɪ/

Tolstoy is a 7 letter English word.

You can make 85 anagrams from letters in Tolstoy (loostty).

Definitions for Tolstoy

noun

  1. Leo or Lev Nikolaevich [lev nik-uh-lahy-uh-vich;; Russian lyef nyi-kuh-lah-yi-vyich] /lɛv ˌnɪk əˈlaɪ əˌvɪtʃ;; Russian ˈlyɛf nyɪ kʌˈlɑ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), Count, 1828–1910, Russian novelist and social critic.

Examples for Tolstoy

The great Mann disappointed her; instead of Kafka and Tolstoy, he wanted to know what she thought of Hemingway.

Like Flaubert, Tolstoy and Stendhal greatly admired Walter Scott.

Tolstoy had inveighed bitterly against all forms of artificial art.

He hated war like a Quaker, and soldiers like Tolstoy himself.

But genuine strength, as Tolstoy understood so well, comes from humility, not hubris.

This clearly is a study from life, a leaf from Tolstoy's "Crimean Journal."

If Dostoevsky unintentionally laid the philosophical groundwork upon which Putin now stands, then Tolstoy offers the solution.

The idea was the important thing to Tolstoy in everything that he read or wrote.

If Putin preferred Tolstoy over Dostoevsky, what a happier, more peaceful place Ukraine would be right now.

A truer and completer picture of war than either Tolstoy or Zola.

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