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 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
The show's dithyrambic peak, "Benny's Number," is scaled with the percussive aid of Louis Prima's Sing, Sing, Sing.
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
After S. Francis, but at the distance of half a century, followed Jacopone da Todi, with his passionate and dithyrambic odes, which seem to vibrate tongues of fire.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington
