How To Use parricide In A Sentence
- Eventually the narrative reaches its climax and the tantalizing underworld of desire and fear destroys itself in an orgiastic frenzy of voyeurism, a chase with guns, violence, and an Oedipal parricide.
- Recalling the unspecified horror of Robert Longo's ‘Men in the City’ series, Mull's 5-by-7-foot elegy to parricide, War and Peace, is pervaded by a sense of violence.
- She can point out that that story, that progress, began in blood, fear, tears, and leads to repeated antagonisms, repeated parricides, repeated wars: it leads to death.
- Wonderland of Knowledge Encyclopedia, 1965] [Use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do] See the civil battology [vain repetitions] of the heathen in their supplications: "Let the parricide be dragged: we beseech thee. From the Talmud and Hebraica
- The Fast Runner, the first feature made in the Inuit language, tells an ancient tale of how an evil spirit descended on a tribe, causing a blood feud that involved treachery, adultery, and parricide.
- While Oedipus loses his ability to name his parents due to his incest and parricide, Augustus loses his power to recognize parricide and incest because he has been denied the freedom to know his parentage.
- Freud emphasises parricide, both in regard to the Oedipal urge and to the primal horde, where sons kill the father.
- And Bacon did not allude to the tragic sequel - incest and parricide - as if his Oedipus has emerged triumphant, blessed by his wound and thereby bestowing blessings.
- In his Totem and Taboo Freud made such an act of primal parricide and rape the origin of all subsequent human culture.
- An Englishman may be a mass of prejudices, but I confess I did not like the idea of hob-nobbing with a would-be parricide and determined that Diversions in Sicily