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

Sometimes we come to a fuller reckoning of ourselves through the most Stygian passageways.

From New York Times • Oct. 25, 2023

There, Levi conjured a Stygian exoplanet of glissandos and microtones and processed percussive sounds, evoking the truly alien better than the most lavish special effects ever could have done.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 23, 2017

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

“There’s nothing I hate worse than Stygian iron.”

From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan