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

It is thus easier to understand the dithyrambic peroration with which, speaking as if in the presence of the Deity, the Premier opened the Gaullist campaign at a rally in Paris.

From Time Magazine Archive

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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Nor did the times suit his lyrical temperament, which today can express itself in dithyrambic celebrations.

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It is not everybody who can wax dithyrambic over the ‘dusty’ and the ‘mouldy.’

From By-ways in Book-land Short Essays on Literary Subjects by Adams, William Davenport