What is "rabelaisian"

Usage examples of "rabelaisian".

The more subtle Rabelaisian formulation sees self-indulgence as a paradoxical image of the search for truth.

Courier office, and even the Rabelaisian quip which Charles Lamb throws at it in the above-quoted letter to Manning, are sufficient indications of his state at this time.

He consigned the doctor and all his works, severally and comprehensively described, to hell, and finished up his epic speech by a pungent and Rabelaisian criticism of the whole race of leeches.

I had spent another Rabelaisian weekend in Paris at Easter, and Jane had told me that his enforced absence had caused a number of harassing lawsuits to be filed against him by business competitors, and since he could not be present to answer them, he was faring badly.

Radha answered with a simple matter-of-fact-ness that took all the Rabelaisian wind out of his sails.

Dodging up and down college staircases with Rabelaisian zest she would arrive at my set of rooms overlooking Trinity Great Court, let herself in and close my oak.

In the streets of Belsize Park and Swiss Cottage and Finchley, the pavements glittered, the dustbins gave out Rabelaisian smells.

Ali the Persian and the Kurd Sharper is a very short story, but quite Rabelaisian in its humour, and the manner in which the Persian and the Kurd describe the contents of the small bag that had been lost.

Besides, the nature of Vendelmans's dyingness was particularly unsettling because he had been so big and robust and outgoing, a true Rabelaisian figure, and somehow between one moment and the next he was transformed into a wraith.

It gives me a royal pain in the arse, if you want a Rabelaisian opinion.