Scheherazadean

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1. Of or relating to the fictional storyteller Scheherazade.

   Instead of following the Scheherazadean strategy of delaying death, such suicidal narratives are a means of hastening the narrator's end.

   1994, Robert Scott Leventhal, Reading After Foucault

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   Ray makes her determination all the more sensuously Scheherazadean when she calls for her servant Hiria and demands that the old woman come and tell her a story.

   2000, Darius Cooper, Dudley Andrew, William Rothman, The Cinema of Satyajit Ray: Between Tradition and Modernity