How To Use Icarus In A Sentence
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Indeed, Icarus had been discovered by astronomer Walter Baade during an equally close approach in 1949.
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There is a famous Greek myth in which Icarus flew too near to the Sun.
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Lifar's retelling of the Icarus myth is essentially a solo danced against the choral movement of a group.
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The memorial features a striking bronze winged figure of Daedalus, the ingenious craftsman of Greek legend who created wings to escape King Minos of Crete, but whose son Icarus died when he flew to close to the sun.
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Indeed, Icarus had been discovered by astronomer Walter Baade during an equally close approach in 1949.
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Abilities: Icarus is a skilled guitar player and a talented singer.
Marvel Thursday Thirteen - SciFiChick.com
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There is a famous Greek myth in which Icarus flew too near to the Sun.
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Icarus, Minos, Pasiphae, Theseus and Ariadne had taken the place of Red Ridinghood and Cinderella in her infant mind.
THE QUEST FOR K
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Gabby Deeds Kendra Lee Oberhauser, a fast talking, narcissistic, and extremely manipulative hedge fund manager at Icarus Wealth Management Group who has clawed her way up the corporate ladder by becoming a back-stabbing bitch.
George Heymont: Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures
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YouTube, that incandescent tower of video Babel; monument to the sloughed-off detritus of our exponentially-exploding digital culture; a Technicolor cataract of skateboarding dogs, lip-synching college students, political punditry, and porn; has reached the zenith of its meteoric rise; and Icarus-like, wings melting; is spiraling back to earth.
P2pnet World Headlines – April 9, 2009
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Becker: Is the name Icarus Witch significant to anyone else in the band?
Metal Underground.com
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There is a famous Greek myth in which Icarus flew too near to the Sun.
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This issue of Icarus is better than a slice of pumpkin pie.
October 6th, 2009
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Okay then, Vince. Take the Icarus to the Omicron sector to find the Admiral.
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Icarus, Minos, Pasiphae, Theseus and Ariadne had taken the place of Red Ridinghood and Cinderella in her infant mind.
THE QUEST FOR K
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In fact, the only way to get Papa to stop was to stand directly in his path and wave your arms up and down like Icarus diving off the cliff.
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There is a famous Greek myth in which Icarus flew too near to the Sun.
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Even the name Icarus, with its origin in the Greek myth of a boy who flew to great heights (brilliance) but then came too close to the sun (madness) and hurtled to his death, has a literary cast.
Listening to Madness
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A classicist might be tempted to note the Greek myth of Icarus, whose ambition and heedless self-confidence caused him to fly too close to the sun, which melted the wax holding together the feathers of his fabricated wings.
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Flick to page 38 on that preview, by the way, and ye'll see that Icarus is also running a short fiction competition, looking for stories inspired by the illustration on that page.
Archive 2010-06-01
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There is a famous Greek myth in which Icarus flew too near to the Sun.
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The funniest is "Impossible" by Herval and Aris, featuring a toy airplane with an unrequited crush, though is has some close competition in "Mousetrap" by Johane Matte, Ghislain Barbe, and Eric Baptizat and "The Flying Bride," which seems to be missing attribution, and "Icarus" by Johane and Matte, which indicates that Dedalus's invention of those wings was a long and painful time coming.
Book Review: Flight Volume 2
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There is a famous Greek myth in which Icarus flew too near to the Sun.
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And finally I awoke near the end, as Capa is struggling in the bulky EVA suit to reach the payload, and, half awake, I lay there and marveled at the score and what a beautiful thing this vastly underrated film is (my next Mac will be named Icarus).
Lughnasadh '08
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There is a famous Greek myth in which Icarus flew too near to the Sun.
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A boy undone by the failure to accept human limits, Icarus is a useful metaphor for the hothouse kid.
The Drama of the Gifted Parent
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Like Icarus I had tried to fly too close to the sun and now I was falling to the earth below with all the velocity of a Russian satellite.
BETTER THAN THIS
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It shows itself able to function as a flexible vehicle for themes and concerns both timely and timeless; it's as evocative of airplane disasters as of the fall of Icarus.
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Icarus has been made visible by a phenomenon called gravitational lensing which works like a natural magnifying glass.
The Sun
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I realised I had missed seeing this incredible event by a matter of seconds - like the lumpish ploughman who fails to witness the fall of Icarus in Auden's Musee des Beaux Arts.
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With his sons he built Icarus, a sailing hydrofoil, which held the B class world sailing speed record.
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Flight Through the Ages, which opened with a picture of Icarus and his wax wings, melting when he flew too close to the sun.
ANASTASIA KRUPNIK (3-IN-1)
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For those of you who enjoy both gay and speculative fiction, Icarus is the magazine for you.
Editing results
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The title notwithstanding, Catlin's version actually centers on Icarus's father, the legendary architect and inventor Daedalus.
Chicago Reader
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Icarus, Minos, Pasiphae, Theseus and Ariadne had taken the place of Red Ridinghood and Cinderella in her infant mind.
THE QUEST FOR K
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When Icarus finally acquired his Flytec Variometer, at a very affordable price I might add, he immediately noticed the barograph feature and insisted on trying it out that day.
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Not only do they jump out of perfectly good airplanes - they name parachutes and skydiving schools after Icarus.
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Although his father explains that when something goes into a black hole it never comes out, Icarus is confident that he can journey to the black holes edge and still make it back.
Icarus at the Edge of Time by Brian Greene: Book summary
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One of the best known of the Greek mythologies is the tale of Icarus.
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For Icarus is one of those Greek heroes who has got a bad press over the past 2,500 years.