Heathcliffianとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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Heathcliffian (comparative more Heathcliffian, superlative most Heathcliffian)

1. Having characteristics similar to the character Heathcliff, especially dark, brooding, intense, tortured, possessive, aggressive, and/or uncivilized.
   • 1993, Harold Bloom, Heathcliff, page 54:

     Hindley occupies a place at the Heathcliffian end of the spectrum and, like Heathcliff, is both aggressive and competitive, although insecurely so.

   • 2000, John Bishop Ballem, ‎John Ballem, Manchineel, →ISBN, page 152:

     I guess you could call him handsome in a dark, Heathcliffian way.

   • 2014, Suzanne Ruthven, Charnel House Blues: The Vampyre's Tale, →ISBN:

     The Grand Tour introduced the young bloods of England — whose acquaintance I made in large numbers — to crumbling architecture and Gothic ruins and, as a result, on their return they transformed their country estates into “a cross between the House of Usher and Wuthering Heights, a Heathcliffian blend of artificial mountains, lonely moors and decayed ruins.

   • 2018, Kate Atkinson, Transcription, →ISBN, page 70:

     Perry himself was not entirely without Heathcliffian qualities — the absence of levity, the ruthless disregard for a girl's comfort, the way he had of scrutinizing you as if you were a puzzle to be solved.