pyretic
Example Sentences
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His choreography was sharp, ecstatic, pyretic; while his dancers, swathed in brilliant fabrics and ornate feathered headpieces, merged the rhapsodic convulsions common to the Shango and Yoruba faiths with sleek pirouettes and dazzling leaps.
From The Guardian • Jul. 22, 2015
The pyretic energy and frank self-examination here recall — it’s been observed before — Egon Schiele, similarly prolific and doomed.
From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2011
Dig, whose means were not equal to his connections, produced, somewhat bashfully, a rather “high” cold chicken, some gingerbread, some pyretic saline, and a slab or two of home-made toffee.
From The Master of the Shell by Reed, Talbot Baines
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
