Other Word Forms
- pre-Dantean adjective
Etymology
Origin of Dantean
Example Sentences
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It’s no spoiler to point out that the brilliant Ward employs a Dantean structure as Annis makes her descent and, at last, her rebirth.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 28, 2023
The coronavirus hit these small gatherings hard, but by meeting again, these regulars embodied the best in Dantean resistance and hope.
From Washington Post • Nov. 4, 2021
Even in my despair, though, I had to reluctantly acknowledge that my Dantean melodramatics were bordering on the histrionic.
From Slate • Feb. 7, 2017
In 1926, the archeologist and social activist Umberto Zanotti Bianco called Matera “a Dantean horror.”
From The New Yorker • Apr. 20, 2015
"From the sublime to the ridiculous," said Burke, "there is but a step;" and at not much greater distance from this Dantean window is a German toy stand.
From Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland by Choules, J.O.
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