dithyrambic
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When I left the politicians, I went to the poets; tragic, dithyrambic, and all sorts.
From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022
The "dithyrambic prose" which excited avant-garde blurbists in Tropic of Cancer�and which was frequently tiresome�has been kept in hand by a new sense of structure �a better interplay of narrative and reminiscence.
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In one sense, Author Kerouac's dithyrambic denial of mind may be salutary in an age that overrationalizes and overanalyzes existence.
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Out of genuine affection and twenty-twenty vision, Author Lee has fashioned the best of the few U.S. books about Greece, even including Henry Miller's dithyrambic tribute, The Colossus of Maroussi.
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"Patriotic" history and dithyrambic literature never can do it.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham