Example Sentences

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So were his swagger and Byronic good looks.

From New York Times • May 20, 2023

Hannah Arendt, for example, decimated the archetype of grandiose, Byronic villainy by identifying the “banality of evil” in Adolf Eichmann.

From Slate • Oct. 2, 2019

Early on, Brown affected a showy persona: long hair, blousy white shirts with billowing sleeves, leather vests, velvet pants tucked into knee-high boots, and Byronic capes.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 30, 2019

As writer Rebecca Traister pointed out on Twitter, a woman who abandoned her family for "self-discovery tours" would be regarded as a selfish monster, not a Byronic hero.

From Salon • Mar. 14, 2019

And here is Mr. Rochester, waiting for her, in all his Byronic heroism.

From "We Are Okay" by Nina LaCour