peripeteia

How To Use peripeteia In A Sentence

• It also stresses the revenger's isolation from the world and the peripeteia of his actions which always lead to his own destruction.
• He destroys the wonderful peripeteia of the original story, jettisons the power of the over-the-top surreal insanity by bestowing it on a minor character, and replaces it all with a fatalistic conclusion to a psycho-drama. Dread
• His intelligent cultivation and deferment of expectations through titles has built much of the resonance for this peripeteia by amplifying both the metaphorical and the mutual significance of what we have seen.
• I see what you're saying, but it certainly did cause me to reevaluate my initial impressions of the plot, which kinda-sorta feels like a twist, or at least some form of elaborate peripeteia. "Serpent!" screamed the Pigeon.
• We were instructed that life, like Greek plays, features peripeteia, or reversals of fortune. When Prudence Was a Virtue
• Levin (1929-2007), best known for his novels "Rosemary's Baby" (1967) and "The Stepford Wives" (1972), had obviously mastered the principles of Aristotle's "Poetics," for Deathtrap abounds in "peripeteia" or sudden reversals of fortune. The Gothic Twist of an Intricate 'Deathtrap
• a peripeteia swiftly turns a routine sequence of events into a story worth telling
• But the music itself coursed with the language and logic of the underdog peripeteia at the last-second buzzer.
• Both have admirably managed _peripeteias_, the shorter story (_Mlle. de Kérouare_) having, in particular, a memorable setting of that inexorable irony of Fate against which not only is there no armour, but not even the chance and consolement of fighting armourless. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
• Were Cantor's failure and Murdoch's peripeteia inevitable? HuffPost Radio: Both Sides Now: Conservatives Play Defense on Debt Ceiling and Murdoch