How To Use Charybdis In A Sentence
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After the Sirens are the drifting rocks which must be avoided by taking a route that goes past Scylla, a six-headed monster, and Charybdis, a whirlpool.
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Aaron continued telling anyone who was listening how the freighter ship Charybdis was in distress.
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Cars crept down Ninth Street, navigating between the stalls and debris like an urban Scylla and Charybdis.
RUNNING FROM THE LAW
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When she looked around, she saw smoke spiraling from Charybdis.
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How to effect this, given the electronic Scylla and Charybdis hereinbefore mentioned?
A MEANS TO EVIL
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Admit it - that reference to Scylla and Charybdis took yoU aback.
A MEANS TO EVIL
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Obama is steering his ship right between two rocky promontories, like Odysseus trying to navigate between the dangerous rocks of Scylla and the whirlpool of Charybdis.
Matthew Yglesias » Endgame
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How to effect this, given the electronic Scylla and Charybdis hereinbefore mentioned?
A MEANS TO EVIL
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Melton was then unknown to fame, but, as if inspired by that _furor venaticus_ which now inspires all who come within twenty miles of this Charybdis of the chase, Bess here _let out_ in a style with which it would have puzzled the best Leicestershire squire's best prad to have kept pace.
Rookwood
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To do so means navigating between the Scylla of hagiography and the Charybdis of what Joyce Carol Oates called pathography.
'Friendlyvision'
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*** And, when one reads Berlin's qualified praise of Herzen, it's easy to see how he became central to Stoppard's three plays: "Herzen does at least face genuine political problems, such as the incompatibility of unlimited personal liberty with either social equality, or the minimum of social organization and authority; the need to sail precariously between the Scylla of individualist 'atomization' and the Charybdis of collectivist oppression; the sad disparity and conflict between many, equally noble human ideals; the nonexistence of 'objective,' eternal, universal moral and political standards, to justify either coercion or resistance to it; the mirage of distant ends, and the impossibility of doing wholly without them.
Stinky Inky, Part VI: Carlin Romano's April Fools' Joke on His Philadelphia Inquirer Readers
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There's a Scylla and a Charybdis in interchurch discussions, as in so many other kinds of discussions.
Archive 2007-02-01
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How to effect this, given the electronic Scylla and Charybdis hereinbefore mentioned?
A MEANS TO EVIL
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Ajax was as helpless as Odysseus" craft ever was, drifting between Scylla and Charybdis, hoping against hope.
SPLITTING
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Ajax was as helpless as Odysseus" craft ever was, drifting between Scylla and Charybdis, hoping against hope.
SPLITTING
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Cars crept down Ninth Street, navigating between the stalls and debris like an urban Scylla and Charybdis.
RUNNING FROM THE LAW
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Ajax was as helpless as Odysseus " craft ever was, drifting between Scylla and Charybdis, hoping against hope.
SPLITTING
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This design job is best thought of in a model-building context in which the validity of rank and the inherent tendency to abuse it are both recognized, and it is everyone's job to steer the ship of state between the six-headed monster of "Scylla" (wimpy ranklessness) and the whirlpool of "Charybdis" (self-aggrandizing rank).
Robert Fuller: Bridging Left and Right: A Foundation for Transpartisan Politics
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Admit it - that reference to Scylla and Charybdis took yoU aback.
A MEANS TO EVIL
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This example demonstrates the two main dangers, the Scylla and Charybdis . Between which we must steer to gain innovations for art.
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The Argo slipped through Scylla and Charybdis, guarded by nymphs.
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The student must be left to steer his own course between this Scylla and Charybdis.
