stygian

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A subtle reference to Serra’s father, a pipe fitter at a shipyard near San Francisco, it also puts us in mind of Charon’s ferry, shuttling souls across Stygian waters.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

The actors are shot in separate gloomy interiors, and from stationary positions, so as to appear in Stygian Zoom-like frames as if at a virtual meeting of hobbits.

From New York Times • May 7, 2021

The pictures – dramatic, intense, Stygian and insistently putting the Bible into the here and now – were like nothing seen before and their effect was instantaneous.

From The Guardian • Oct. 7, 2016

For the next 90 minutes, we traveled the Stygian depths separately, our frantic text messages to each other getting through only when our trains briefly surfaced over the East River.

From Washington Post • May 8, 2016

He unsheathed his Stygian iron blade and approached the archway.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan