Ulysses

[ US /juˈɫɪsiz/ ]
NOUN
  1. (Roman mythology) Roman spelling for Odysseus
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How To Use Ulysses In A Sentence

  • The original Ulysses may have been Ithacan, but this one is more of a Spartan in temperament. Big Questions and Little Trinkets
  • And I think that if Mr. Sidgwick had pondered the strange words of Ulysses, com 'altrui piacque, he would not have said that the preacher and prophet are lost in the poet. Dante
  • He excoriates the McSweeney's crowd and "the ridiculous dithering of John Barth ... [and] the reductive cardboard constructions of Donald Barthelme," and would excise from the modern canon "nearly all of Gaddis, Pynchon, DeLillo," and — while he's at it — "the diarrheic flow of words that is Ulysses ... the incomprehensible ramblings of late Faulkner and the sterile inventions of late Nabokov. New & Noteworthy
  • English in the West Indies; or, the/[Page xi]/Bow of Ulysses '(the long bow of Ulysses it should have been), provoked numerous damaging replies, the most effective of which was' Mr. Froude's Negrophobia; or, New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
  • It was hoped that the Ulysses's skill would prove decisive in the tough battleground of Beta Centauri.
  • She was obliged to obey, and she called Menelaus in her own voice, and Diomede in the voice of his wife, and Ulysses in the very voice of Penelope. Tales of Troy: Ulysses, the sacker of cities
  • Further, Newton's assumption that Wallace is the sole practitioner of the artful defusion of 'high brow' pretension by 'street slang' is an overstatement -- recall Joyce's exhausting of the entire practice in his "Oxen of the Sun" episode of Ulysses where the whole history of the English language is satirized, equally, from its inception to his contemporary cockney. Omer Rosen: Footnoting David Foster Wallace: Part 1
  • He also repeated Judge Woolsey's famous remark about Ulysses being ‘emetic rather than erotic’ though he did not refer the court to his source.
  • James Joyce's Ulysses'challenged the literary traditions of his day.
  • Coleman drew an analogy between Cheney and my favorite historical figure, Ulysses Grant.
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