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4 days ago · noun. someone (usually maleficent) who tries to persuade or force another person to do his bidding. see more.
5 days ago · Present-day distribution of Indo-European languages in Eurasia. Bengali is one of the easternmost languages. Indo- Iranian languages, Bengali marked yellow. The descent of proto-Gauda, the ancestor of the modern Bengali language, from the proto-Gauda-Kamarupa line of the proto-Magadhan (Magadhi Prakrit).
4 days ago · In the following excerpt, Auerbach analyzes the two main characters of Trilby—Svengali as master/mesmerist and Trilby as metamorphosing heroine.
4 days ago · It is striking that the Svengali-like Poppas—his name recalling the paternalism Cather admired in DuMaurier—represents one of the more positive figures in the story.
5 days ago · When he published the memoir/business manual Bands, Brands & Billions: My Top 10 Rules for Making Any Business Go Platinum in 2003, disgraced boy band Svengali Louis J. Pearlman was decades into running one of the longest, most lucrative and notorious Ponzi schemes in American history.
1 day ago · The couple met on the set of 2013 film Svengali, where Vicky played the part of Shell, the on-screen girlfriend of Jonny who also wrote the film. Svengali was screened at the 67th Edinburgh ...
5 days ago · Ian Ernest Gilmore Evans ( né Green; May 13, 1912 – March 20, 1988) [ 1] was a Canadian–American jazz pianist, arranger, composer and bandleader. He is widely recognized as one of the greatest orchestrators in jazz, playing an important role in the development of cool jazz, modal jazz, free jazz, and jazz fusion.
5 days ago · I had previously voiced concerns that the Svengali, Sue Gray, a kind of nightmare civil servant Nurse Rached character, was sabotaging the Blair project, today the Mail on Sunday dished the dirt that Gray is blocking people from security briefings in Downing Steet and even withholding information from the Prime Minister.
2 days ago · The group were outshone by the more flamboyant Orange Juice, and the label’s sock-drawer Svengali Alan Horne sometimes gave the impression he had signed them by mistake. JIMI HENDRIX, ...
4 days ago · Her mother referred to me as Svengali, but eventually forgave me. For lack of a better idea, we borrowed the name of the neighborhood for the band. A place called Over-the-Rhine sounded weirdly ...
