Dostoyevskiyan

English

Adjective

Dostoyevskiyan (comparative more Dostoyevskiyan, superlative most Dostoyevskiyan)

Alternative form of Dostoyevskian.
- 1987, Yair Mazor, The Triple Cord: Agnon, Hamsun, Strindberg; Where Scandinavian and Hebrew Literature Meet‎^[1], Papyrus Publishing House at Tel Aviv University, →ISBN, page 15:
  Amos Oz (see Preface), in a literary essay dedicated to S.Y. Agnon’s artistry, wonders about the surprisingly close relations between Agnon and Y. Ch. Brenner (a highly prominent Israeli author, 1881–1921): “What, in God’s name, makes a bitter person, sentimental, of slack appearance and bad-tempered like Brenner, a person of a Russian mentality, perhaps a little Dostoyevskiyan, to endear a refined and soft young person, shy lyrical and coquettish, a delicate aromatic fruit spoiled in its protecting cover, like Agnon…?”
- 1994 June 8, “Pacific Fleet Commander’s Dismissal Called ‘Unfair’”, in Central Eurasia: Military Affairs (JPRS Report), page 16, column 1:
  Grachev’s telegram to the Pacific Fleet stated that Adm. Gurinov had been dismissed for “…serious shortcomings in his organizational activity relating to leadership of the Fleet.” The accusation was formulated in the relatively classic way—it can be used to remove any commander, including a flag officer. And at any time, if we proceed on the Dostoyevskiyan basis that “…absolutely anyone can be blamed for anything.”
- 1996 August 9, Paul Goble, “Analysis From Washington: Searching for a New Russian 'Truth'”, in Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty‎^[2], archived from the original on 2021-02-25:
  Many Russians believe, as they have in the past, that the Russian nation has a special word to say to the world, be it the Dostoyevskiyan idea of a Russian "god," the "truth" of "Pravda" during the Soviet period or the "unifying national idea" of the Yeltsin regime now.
- 2002, Central European Political Science Review: Quarterly of Central European Political Science Association, volume 3, numbers 9–10, Hungarian Erasmus Foundation, page 200:
  […] and tradition-respect, in the terms of the Dostoyevskiyan 'I do not accept the world'.