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
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Pindar, in whose hands the ode took such magnificent completeness, is said to have been trained in the elements of dithyrambic poetry by a certain Lasus of Hermione.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" by Various
