Mittel

Ladies had long ceased looking impatiently at their watches, and were perhaps busy with their thoughts, as I was, when from the "mittel" door Court-preacher Frommel entered, his long white hair thrown back, and crossed through the transverse aisle to the robing-room opposite. ❋ Minerva Brace Norton (N/A)

Who would have thought a maverick as extreme and as mittel-European as Herzog could make a hilariously entertaining American movie without once compromising his vision? ❋ Jonathan Jones (2010)

Anyway I could afford a bit of Rothian mittel-European melancholy that was for sure, except that Rebellion is for the first two thirds at least Joseph Roth with his laughing hat on. ❋ Unknown (2008)

When challenged he would say only this -- in a thick mittel-European accent: "Can you tell me the way to Grods?" ❋ The Guardian (2010)

Note 48: Vnd der mittel alter, da er das venster hat gemachet, da wir vnsern herren sehen ... ❋ Unknown (2008)

It all feels very mittel-European in tone and pace and we love that here. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The writers become increasingly obscure as my Nineteenth Century Rehab post-Booker therapy takes me deeper and deeper into unknown but very exciting mittel European book territory. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I am always very grateful and I get there eventually, when the right mood strikes, but they aren't all by Joseph Roth and I was in complete mittel-European mood last weekend so I just opened one and that was me done for. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Give me some good, solid mittel European melancholy with a bit of crumbling Habsburg, some fin-de-siecle Vienna thrown in and it will keep me quiet for hours. ❋ Unknown (2007)

It suddenly needed to be someone who exuded a definitive sense of time and place, atmosphere and emotion and I felt a little smattering of autumnal mittel European melancholy was called for. ❋ Unknown (2007)