How To Use Hamartia In A Sentence
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The terms hamartia and hubris should become basic tools of your critical apparatus.
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In essence, hamartia means “mistake,” pure and simple—although the mistake is never pure and rarely simple.
Amaryllis in Blueberry
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Your hamartia is your: a. tragic flaw that leads to your downfall.
Blogposts | guardian.co.uk
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Aristotle's idea that a tragic hero acts from a hamartia or mistake rather than evil intent was distorted into a theory of the so-called tragic flaw and was applied to describe foibles of Hamlet and Othello (jealousy).
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The terms hamartia and hubris should become basic tools of your critical apparatus.
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But for the use of arche in the sense and with the force which we here demand for it, as "principium," not "initium" (though these Latin words do not adequately reproduce the distinction), compare the Gospel of Nicodemus, c. 25, in which Hades addresses Satan as he tou thanatou arche kai rhiza tes hamartias; and further, Dionysius the Areopagite (c. 15): ho Theos estin panton aitia kai arche; and again, Clement of Alexandria (Strom.iv. 25): ho Theos de anarchos, arche ton holon panteles.
Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia.
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“He made his soul an offering for sin,” — a piacular sacrifice for the removing of it away; which the apostle abundantly cleareth, in saying that he was made hamartia, “sin” itself, 2 Cor.v. 21, sin being there put for the adjunct of it, or the punishment due unto it.
The Death of Death in the Death of Christ
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Yet in every Greek tragedy the catalyst for the protagonist’s downfall is hamartia, from the Greek hamartanein, a term that describes an archer missing the target.
Amaryllis in Blueberry
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It was for Alexander a tragic flaw, or hamartia, a Greek word meaning to miss the mark when shooting an arrow Christians would later use the same word to mean “sin”.
Alexander the Great
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But there is another more proper signification of the word: hamartia being put for hamartōlos, — “sin,” for a “sinner,” (that is, passively, not actively; not by inhesion, but imputation); for this the phrase of speech and force of the antithesis seem to require.
The Doctrine of Justification by Faith
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As the classical imagination rightly observed, we all have a tendency to privilege the contents of the ego in service to our security (this they called hybris) and a tendency to view the world through the colored lens granted us by fate (this they called the hamartia) and end by deceiving ourselves.
California Literary Review
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Most common, however, is "hamartia," a term from archery meaning to "miss the mark" particularly by falling short.
"Should I stay with my girlfriend after she gave up sex for religion?"
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The critic Frank Kermode corrected our mistranslation of Aristotle's word hamartia (tragic flaw), suggesting that a more accurate and useful interpretation would be missing the mark.
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Rather, her moment of hamartia comes when she decides to behave in a manner that she knows might destroy her social and familial standing.
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Howbeit, there is an emphasis in the expression, which is not to be neglected: for as it is observed by Chrysostom, as containing an auxesis (ouchi ton mē hamartanonta monon legei alla ton mēde gnonta hamartian), and by sundry learned persons after him; so those who desire to learn the excellency of the grace of God herein, will have an impression of a sense of it on their minds from this emphatical expression, which the Holy Ghost chose to make use of unto that end; and the observation of it is not to be despised.
The Doctrine of Justification by Faith
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It has it all: pathos, hamartia and not a little comedy.
Times, Sunday Times
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The terms hamartia and hubris should become basic tools of your critical apparatus.
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The airport quality inn for one of the perturbing bay sententiously disjointedly hygrometer hedgerow, bristlegrass doojigger, has not truthfully immaculate a hamartia of symphony but that all scouser be resurgent.
Rational Review
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Sin, you will recall, in the Greek (Hamartia) is defined as a correctable mistake, as missing the mark, not as evil.
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The tragic hero's reversal inspires pity if it is due not to wickedness of character but rather to some hamartia, by which Aristotle seems to mean some error in action, sometimes blameworthy and sometimes not.
