Citations:svengali

English citations of svengali

• 1894, George du Maurier, “Part First”, in Trilby: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, pages 11–12:

  His thick, heavy, languid, lustreless black hair fell down behind his ears on to his shoulders, in that musicianlike way that is so offensive to the normal Englishman. He had bold, brilliant black eyes, with long heavy lids, a thin, sallow face, and a beard of burnt-up black which grew almost from his under eyelids; and over it his mustache, a shade lighter, fell in two long spiral twists. He went by the name of Svengali, and spoke fluent French with a German accent, and humorous German twists and idioms, and his voice was very thin and mean and harsh, and often broke into a disagreeable falsetto.

• 2002 February 9, David Lister, “Pete Waterman: He should be so lucky”, in The Independent‎^[1], retrieved 2021-02-09:

  Television can produce pop stars and pop idols. But your pop svengalis are not so easily mass-produced. That's one part of the music business you can't audition for.