| 单词 | Dantesque |
| 例句 | A thick fog lay in the valley below, a smoldering cauldron of white from which only the treetops protruded, stark and Dantesque. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z It shows Sciola standing, gaunt and Dantesque, against a black backdrop. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “Sometimes people leave you halfway through the wood” — she reflected upon the Dantesque meaning of Sondheim’s line, but she needn’t have said a word. Barbara Cook at the Wallis: Still doing what she does best 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, in the Dantesque dark wood that we call our mortal lives, Wilson has prescriptions for rectifying society, extrapolated from his conservative reading of The Divine Comedy. Dante in Love by AN Wilson ? review 2011-07-15T08:00:01Z Education Minister Pilar Alegría called the image of Obregón leaving the hospital "Dantesque", referring to the Italian writer's journey through hell. Spanish anger over TV star Ana Obregón's surrogate baby in US 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z “It’s Dantesque. No one has seen anything like it.” Farmers struggle in Argentina as drought withers their crops 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z Luís Carlos Valois, a judge who negotiated an end to the violence on January 2nd, called the hellish scene “Dantesque”. Carnage at a prison in the Amazon 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z And, certainly, both his book and Helm’s are full of the kind of details that ordinarily appear only in Dantesque visions. How the Concentration Camps Worked 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z I prefer the Alpine heights and passes to heavenly promises; I prefer rivers and lakes to the Dantesque. Voices from the Past 2012-04-19T02:00:30.787Z As darkness fell, fires shone out here and there, and threw into Dantesque relief the dark forms of half-naked men toiling with fury to feed the flames. The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z There is only one more point to be noticed in the Dantesque landscape; namely, the feeling entertained by the poet towards the sky. Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things 2012-02-20T03:00:15.843Z It is, therefore, with surprise and admiration that we 20 watch the undaunted struggle of Assisi against a tyrant whom she hated with a hatred quite Dantesque in its bitterness and strength. The Story of Assisi 2012-01-14T03:00:18.710Z In any event it was a Dantesque touch, emphasized by the character of the call—the wail of a lost soul being as good a simile as any other. Atlantic Classics, Second Series 2011-12-09T03:00:20.203Z The wild savagery of the surroundings—which at first she had pronounced absolutely faultless in their fantastic chaos of rock and crag and chasm, now took on a Dantesque and hope-chilling aspect. The Heath Hover Mystery 2011-12-01T03:00:22.357Z At times the style becomes heavy and pedantic, at others the touches of the pencil have a vigour and simplicity altogether Dantesque. Southern Spain 2011-11-11T03:00:28.423Z All these imply a certain Dantesque selection; these subjects are among the examples quoted for purposes of meditation or admonition in the Divina Commedia. The Story of Florence 2011-10-20T02:00:24.237Z Some day he will rediscover the Dantesque hierarchy of souls implicit in humanity. Atlantic Classics 2011-10-16T02:00:18.497Z We seemed like souls in torment, traveling in a world of the dead, condemned to some Dantesque torture that should never cease. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z The gloomy, Dantesque valley bellowed to the echoes of a resounding roar, the reverberations of two jezail shots behind. The Heath Hover Mystery 2011-12-01T03:00:22.357Z It has been called a weird Dantesque funeral-march over the whole heathen world; but it is more than that. The Prophet Ezekiel An Analytical Exposition 2011-07-27T02:00:27.557Z A carnival of evil, weird and Dantesque, begins in the lonely cell. Nevermore 2011-07-08T02:00:23.973Z And a Dantesque quality, not of method, but of power, is to be felt in Moli�re. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z These works were the last he was to achieve; out of the whole Dantesque series, seven designs alone have ever won their way into such notice as engraving could earn for them. William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z Still it would be difficult to imagine a more complete inversion of the Dantesque point of view, a more deliberate substitution of an Earthly Paradise for the Paradiso of the Divine Comedy. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z At one such illegal mine, an hour's motorcycle ride over trails outside of Cafunfo, a Dantesque scene unfolds. The 'Blood Diamond' Resurfaces 2010-06-19T00:40:00Z It is Miltonic in conception and Dantesque in expression; the syllables ring out in pure concent, like blasts from a silver clarion. An Outline of Russian Literature This was by way of being Dantesque, as Michael Angelo was. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. He is both Dantesque and Darwinian, as has been said. Whitman A Study Yet some poets of the transition were hardy enough to attempt the Dantesque meter, and to pretend in a prosaic age that they had shared the vision of the prophets. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z The recumbent effigy of the Volumnian is, indeed, rude and of little merit; rude also in execution is the monument on which it rests, but in conception and design of a dignity almost Dantesque. Frederic Lord Leighton An Illustrated Record of His Life and Work The under-world is partly an Elysium of existence without cares; partly Dantesque: “Bring ice when you come again, for we thirst for cold water down here.” Eskimo Folk-Tales You and I have visited the lowest Dantesque circles of despair together, and no confidence between us could amount to an indiscretion. Letters of a Dakota Divorcee He is fluid, generative, electric; he is full of the germs, potencies, and latencies of things; he provokes thought without satisfying it; he is formless without being void; he is both Darwinian and Dantesque. Whitman A Study The message and the messenger seem to answer exactly to the monk of Evesham, whose Dantesque revelations18 are here almost quoted. Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England In Elizabeth Eleanor's manner there was a morbid languor and dreaminess, put on, some said, for her lover like a Greek gown, and surely encouraged by him and pictured in his Dantesque creations. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers And a Dantesque quality, not of method, but of power, is to be felt in Molière. Classic French Course in English Stalls, pit, and circles—the very names suggested Dantesque images and provided illustrations for many a discourse. Two Sides of the Face Midwinter Tales Instead of a universe with dimensions known and circumscribed with Dantesque minuteness, the mystic glow of the unknown had settled down on the whole face of Nature, who offered her secrets to the first comer. The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 But has he preserved it in its force and simplicity and Dantesque directness? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 We want the "inevitable" word, the simple and the home-coming, the Dantesque. Platform Monologues He anticipates Villon from afar, and is happily described by Mr. Rossetti as the prodigal, or 'scamp' of the Dantesque circle. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series Then he caught her up in his arms and ran with her, the shadows of the trees and the undergrowth clutching at him like mocking shapes in a Dantesque vision of the nether world. Swirling Waters Armed with an electric torch, which the Chief carried, and a large sketch-book which I regretted taking almost as soon as we started, we set out on our quest of Dantesque scenery. A Dweller in Mesopotamia Being the Adventures of an Official Artist in the Garden of Eden It is most astonishing, giving not only the literal corresponding phrase, but the spirit of the original, the true Dantesque manner. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 Pallid as Mors, the cheeks had lost their symmetrical oval, were hollow, and under the sunken eyes clung dusky circles that made them appear unnaturally large, and almost Dantesque in their mournful gleaming. Infelice You believe yourself in hell; you hear the cries of anguish and the gnashing of the teeth of the wretched, who, according to the terrible Dantesque expression, vainly desire a second death. Great Pictures, As Seen and Described by Famous Writers Dear beloved Mother, and dear beloved Grandmother,—I am writing to you, having just struggled out of a most appalling nightmare, and out of Dantesque scenes that I have lived through. Letters of a Soldier 1914-1915 Fully rendered are the failure of the Irish and the success of the Anglian missions to Germany; also the visions which we may call Dantesque. Anglo-Saxon Literature The imaginations are Dantesque: "And the souls, mounting up to God, Went by her like thin flames." A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century He was as gray as ever, it is true, but better defined, the outlines sharper, the features more Dantesque and easier to discern in the broad light of the sun. Mr. Isaacs These aërial creatures throng to contemplate the Virgin, and their forms recall those radiances in the shape of crowns that fill the Dantesque Paradise, making the name of Mary resound with their praises. Great Pictures, As Seen and Described by Famous Writers Now I like to plunge into the luminous mist, peopled with still more luminous spirits, of the Dantesque heaven. Without Dogma Amid this fantastic labyrinth of twisted forms we find medallions painted in chiaroscuro with subjects taken chiefly from Ovidian and Dantesque mythology. Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts It is not needful to give a detailed account of Buonarroti's Dantesque criticism, reported in these dialogues, although there are good grounds for supposing them in part to represent exactly what Giannotti heard him say. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti Very stately in his long, black cape, and with his pensive Dantesque face, Forrest continued on his slow progress to the open door and went out of the dining-room. The Spread Eagle and Other Stories Lord Vernon has been known for many years as the most munificent fosterer of Dantesque publications. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860 Here the Virgilian and Dantesque schemes are reversed: Pluto's dread domain, the horrible Inferno, lies above; deep down below are the Fields of the Blest and the celestial Paradise. The Roof of France Men in the Dantesque circles were only made more miserable because all around them were of the same sort as, and some of them worse than, themselves. Expositions of Holy Scripture Sometimes his satire becomes malignant, as in the sonnet against the people of Pistoja, which breathes the spirit of Dantesque invective. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti On either side rose cliffs of darkness, and beneath, like sheets of cold moonlight, flowed the Genesee, a Dantesque effect of jet and silver, Stygian in its intensity and indescribably mournful. October Vagabonds To make matters worse, my brother had caught in this Dantesque garden a brown bird, whether because sick or lame I know not. Memories of Hawthorne In these delineations we now and then meet with a touch of his pencil, which, from its simplicity and vigor, may be called truly Dantesque. The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 1 If Dante's tomb is not Dantesque, so neither is Byron's house Byronic, being a homely, shabby, two-storied dwelling, directly on the street, with as little as possible of isolation and mystery. Italian Hours If Mr. F. W. Myers hears that some ill-trained observers have seen ghosts, he becomes Dantesque and dithyrambic about "the love that rules the world and all the stars." Without Prejudice The scientific conception of the sun is strikingly Dantesque, and appalls the imagination. Birds and Poets : with Other Papers But in Russia, the CIS and the Balkans the scenery is nothing short of Dantesque. After the Rain : how the West lost the East Distinctly Dantesque was the gulf between the huge mountain sides which threatened every moment to fall. The Life of Sir Richard Burton The grave of Dante, it must be said, is anything but Dantesque, and the whole precinct is disposed with that odd vulgarity of taste which distinguishes most modern Italian tributes to greatness. Italian Hours Balzac's fiction takes in a world—an underworld might appropriately be said—of Dantesque proportions. Balzac Yet that same gracious area frames the grim cliff-cup which holds San Francisco bay—a spot of Dantesque sheerness and bareness. —and this. The Native Son In the eighty-acre horse pasture the pony with the Dantesque face grew fat and almost smiling. Sixes and Sevens And his Dantesque face and poet's soul, singing his chant of the flesh, the very priest of Love? When God Laughs: and other stories None but an Italian could have written this pregnant and inexhaustible theme—truly Dantesque. Massimilla Doni Thus crowned, the long-faced quadruped looked more Dantesque than before, and, judging by his countenance, seemed to think of Beatrice. 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