How To Use Choric In A Sentence
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We hear iambs, trochees, Virgil's hexameters, the Norse alliterative lines, each arranged in their various couplets, quatrains, choric stanzas, gnomic verses, and much more besides.
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We hear iambs, trochees, Virgil's hexameters, the Norse alliterative lines, each arranged in their various couplets, quatrains, choric stanzas, gnomic verses, and much more besides.
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Its swift movement, the rapid rise and fall of a rhythmic pattern and its suitability for choric recitation have made it one of our dearest poems.
News at Eleven: [Walt] Whitman's deep influence on Nazrul Islam
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The dithyramb (_dithyrambos_ or Bacchic step, [- '' -]) brought a new step to the dance and therefore a new element into poetry, for all dances were choric, that is to say they were sung as well as danced.
Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University
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The story is presented by nine choric dancers who, in their dark glasses and black skullcaps, resemble a sinister Gallic mime troupe.
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Crinoids are gonochoric and brood their young until the embryo develops into a doliolarian larva or a fully formed juvenile crinoid.
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Hellenistic and Roman times, “lyric poetry” meant poetry, whether monodic or choric, (originally) sung; it did not include elegy or iambics.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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He praises her perfection in hyperbolic, mythological terms in the long speech which precedes the choric conclusion to the play.
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All this matters because it lends Chris's endless refrain of "dat ole devil, sea" a choric power.
Anna Christie – review
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Let me create these choric codas throughout the manuscript that would signal mood changes and serve as epigraphic accents at key points in the manuscript.
2007 March : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation - Part 2
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More and more orfe accompanied her line of choric song with an odd hunching gesture of her shoulders.
IAN AND THE STRIPY BATH PLUG
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Where Brecht uses song or projected words upon a screen, Shakespeare is more likely to use choric characters who may utter highly wrought poetic speeches of some length only to disappear for the rest of the play.
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This song is sung by Pete Townshend, whose voice in the film is a kind of choric narrator, directly addressing the audience as in Greek tragedy.
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My observation is that directly as our choric insistence on the restoration of values has swelled, so our own personal embodiment of those values in our daily conduct has sunk.
The Values Split Screen
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a choric Greek tragedy
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We hear iambs, trochees, Virgil's hexameters, the Norse alliterative lines, each arranged in their various couplets, quatrains, choric stanzas, gnomic verses, and much more besides.
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The evening really belongs, however, to the unseen Kieve who can make inanimate objects skim through the air, and who finally has Gary Wilmot as a choric tramp locked in a trunk only to reappear seconds later at the back of the stalls.
The Invisible Man – review
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Key reproductive features: iteroparous; seasonal breeding; gonochoric/gonochoristic/dioecious (sexes separate); sexual
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In the same way, the sight of his father defeated by unemployment provides Death of a Salesman with its Greek, choric universality.
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The songs sung in Dappu Dance are choric and sometimes erotic.
Untouchable Spring .... అంటరాని వసంతం
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In the same excavations on Temple Hill, Robinson found a second example of a similar Archaic sacrificial calendar incised, boustrophedon, in the epichoric Corinthian alphabet, this time on a fragmentary lead tablet.
