How To Use Dithyrambic In A Sentence
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Such is the case with Herrick's ‘Fare-well to Sack,’ a dithyrambic ode.
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Heine’s mental history, but because they are a specimen of his power in that kind of dithyrambic writing which, in less masterly hands, easily becomes ridiculous:
The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete
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From time to time he'd been forced to wax dithyrambic even about the pretend engineers.
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We are met almost at the threshold by a colossal epic, Creation, Man and the Messiah (1830); by songs that turn into dithyrambic odes, by descriptive pieces which embrace the universe, by all the froth and roar and turbidity of genius, with none of its purity and calm.
Henrik Ibsen
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He is quite right that Wilde is in the play as a foil to Housman, and elevates the "dithyrambic" artist at the expense of the scrupulous scholar.
'The Invention of Love': An Exchange
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After the politicians, I went to the poets; tragic, dithyrambic, and all sorts.
The Apology
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Such an author will at one moment write in a dithyrambic vein, as though he were tipsy; at another, nay, on the very next page, he will be pompous, severe, profoundly learned and prolix, stumbling on in the most cumbrous way and chopping up everything very small; like the late Christian Wolf, only in a modern dress.
The Art of Literature
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Its structure was polyphonic and its language was dithyrambic.
THE TATTOOED GIRL
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Youth only can understand all that lies in the dithyrambic outpourings of youth when, after a stormy siege, of the most frantic folly and coolest common-sense, the heart finally yields to the assault of the latest comer, be it hope, or despair, as some mysterious power determines.
The Deserted Woman
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As already noted, Socrates classifies poetry (dithyrambic and tragic poetry are named) as a species of rhetoric.
Plato on Rhetoric and Poetry
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In that book we have a man whose instincts in more ways than one were those of a criminal, held up for our admiration, in the same way that the same writer fell into dithyrambic praise over a villain called Francia, a former President of Paraguay.
A Book of Remarkable Criminals
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During the month of August 1881 my brother resolved to reveal the teaching of the Eternal Recurrence, in dithyrambic and psalmodic form, through the mouth of Zarathustra.
Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none
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The dithyrambic chorus is a chorus of the transformed.
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Let us recapitulate, since the steps Socrates is taking are so important for his critique of poetry (it is noteworthy that at several junctures, Socrates generalizes his results from epic to dithyrambic, encomiastic, iambic, and lyric poetry; 533e5-534a7, 534b7-c7).
Plato on Rhetoric and Poetry
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Even Shelton had waxed philosophical and dithyrambic at his passing.