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 critics saluted in dithyrambic terms Abe Lincoln in Illinois, a timely and fervent chronicle but not much by way of drama.

From Time Magazine Archive

For its old-fashioned tone of measured argument and full-throated dithyrambic indignation, it should be one of the great political pamphlets of our time.

From Time Magazine Archive

At the darkest hour he seized the reins without orders and without reference to seniority, and began to reconstruct the force and the spirit of the shattered army by wise administration and dithyrambic proclamations.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various