| Superficially, his novel resembles those grand Dickensian and Balzacian novels of sudden social rise or fall. |
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| The movie moves slowly, cuts out Balzacian dialogue and adds new dialogue of its own. |
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| Throughout, the characteristically intrusive Balzacian narrator pushes in. |
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| At his Balzacian best, he radiated warmth, buoyancy, optimism and hope. |
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| The affluent style of her boudoir suggests Balzacian Plassy or even the Bois de Boulogne rather than the Faubourg Montmartre. |
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| The first and most persistent barrier that is thrown in the path of Balzacian influence is deciding whether Melville had known French or not. |
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| Till Benjamin, no theorist had thought to borrow the Balzacian and Dickensian technique of bringing an era to life through attention to its most minute cultural details. |
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| Now, one of these favorite arrangements, the one perhaps that most powerfully excites the Balzacian imagination, consists of opposing a single character. |
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