| 单词 | peripeteia |
| 例句 | But the most crucial element of tragedy as he saw it was peripeteia: reversals of fortune. Louise Doughty: rereading the best courtroom dramas 2013-06-21T18:00:01Z This is the classic Aristotelian peripeteia: the sudden reversal of fortune. Moment ? review 2011-03-01T18:14:44Z To allow oneself to be twisted this way and that by peripeteia is one of the great pleasures of courtroom dramas. Louise Doughty: rereading the best courtroom dramas 2013-06-21T18:00:01Z A tragedy, wrote Aristotle in the fourth century BC, depicts the fall of a great but flawed man, and hinges on a peripeteia, or sudden reversal, like the Italian defender’s slur. When drama and beauty turn the World Cup into art 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z My second thought: the Greek word “peripeteia,” a sudden reversal of fortune. VW Lost Its Moral Compass in Quest for Growth 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z "When the heir returneth, then shall ring the bell, so the legend runneth, so the old men tell"; in some such words was this grand peripeteia announced in the text. Far Off Things 2011-02-04T03:00:19.967Z They did not give up, but they came less and less to depend upon, extravagant incident, violent peripeteias, cheap supernaturalities, etc. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century It would take a volume to follow out all the peripeteias of the drama. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 1 of 3) Essay 1: Robespierre There must needs be a swift transition, a clash and change from sorrow to joy, what the Greeks called a peripeteia, a quick-turn-round, because, though you carry out Winter, you bring in Summer. Ancient Art and Ritual |
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