stygian
Example Sentences
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Sometimes we come to a fuller reckoning of ourselves through the most Stygian passageways.
From New York Times
He parked next to a dimly lit footbridge, which wobbled with our passage above a Stygian chasm.
From Washington Post
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
The protagonist, Nephthys Kinwell, is, in one light, an alcoholic taxi driver, and, in another, a Stygian ferrywoman haunted by the violent death of her twin brother, Osiris.
From New York Times
This is the Bacon we know — creature of Stygian charm in dandy’s garb, whose own face was flayed by lovers, who flung him out of windows in the beatings he sought.
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
