This satyric old man pursues young girls. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Three tragedies represented in succession were followed by a burlesque, the so-called satyric drama, which has no connection, it must be remembered, with the moral satire of the Romans, but takes its name from the grotesque satyrs of the Greek woods. From Wordnik.com. [Pericles] Reference
You - "" Clark told me all about your satyric reputation. From Wordnik.com. [Where There's Smoke]
There are three kinds of scenes, one called the tragic, second, the comic, third, the satyric. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
He was stiffer than before, if that was physiologically possible, and a fever had descended upon him like a satyric malaria. From Wordnik.com. [Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates]
The iambic measure then replaced the trochaic tetrameter, which was originally employed when the poetry was of the satyric order, and had greater with dancing. From Wordnik.com. [Poetics] Reference
Of the hundred and twenty dramas ascribed to Euripides, there have come down to us complete eighteen tragedies and one satyric drama, "Cyclops," beside numerous fragments. From Wordnik.com. [Hippolytus/The Bacchae] Reference
They are never wholly extinguished; for in all ages there are born artists to whom they are the light of life; and in mediaeval carvings one finds here and there a touch of humanism, most often in grotesque or satyric figures. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
Here at last was a kingdom Ike could call his own -- a place where he could write and record all day and all night too, and party afterward in his private retreat with any of the dozens of women who seemed always available to satisfy his satyric appetites. From Wordnik.com. [I Tina]
Greek Blog admin imprisoned for aggregating satyric posts. From Wordnik.com. [((i)) Indymedia :: Athens :: Κεντρική Σελίδα] Reference
AL: I like the usage of the words circumspect and satyric kayryan: rics I have a wonderful sense of humor. From Wordnik.com. [LUKE IS BACK] Reference
There has always been a touch of the satyric in Dinky-Dunk's attitude toward Peter's weekly letter to my boy. From Wordnik.com. [The Prairie Child] Reference
The satyric and often barbaric behavior perpetuated by young men can not be entirely attributed to their testosterone-fueled libidos. From Wordnik.com. [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference
Jim Breuer, the former "Saturday Night Live" cast member best known for his satyric sketches, is now a family comedian - with a twist. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Vical Confirms Advantages of DNA Technology Platform With Vaccine for H1N1 Influenza] Reference
In the drama of Thespis we find the satyric drama confounded with tragedy, and the persons of the chorus frequently representing satyrs. From Wordnik.com. [Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities] Reference
The reason for their original use of the trochaic tetrameter was that their poetry was satyric and more connected with dancing than it now is. From Wordnik.com. [Poetics. English] Reference
The lines which have relation to Mr. More are so elegantly satyric, that it probably will not displease our readers to find them inserted here. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland]
As Henry had offered to the European audience three tragedies in his three former marriages, he now, in true Greek style, presented in his fourth a farce or "satyric drama.". From Wordnik.com. [The Age of the Reformation] Reference
Moreover, it was not till late that the short plot was discarded for one of greater compass, and the grotesque diction of the earlier satyric form for the stately manner of Tragedy. From Wordnik.com. [Poetics. English] Reference
Palace Borea -- a truly princely pile, built in the last Renaissance style of splendour, with sea-nymphs and dolphins, and satyric heads, half lips, half leafage, round about its doors and windows. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series] Reference
However that may be, Plato would never have let a leading character in one of his longer dialogues advance (and Socrates refute) a view which had no better authority than a passage in a satyric drama. From Wordnik.com. [Atheism in Pagan Antiquity] Reference
As he looked at the young man still leaning back in the leather chair, there seemed for the instant to flicker up behind him some vague presentiment of that foul old dandy with his dangling seals, many-wreathed scarf, and dark satyric face. From Wordnik.com. [Round the Red Lamp] Reference
The Bacchic form of Pantomime, which is particularly popular in Ionia and Pontus, in spite of its being confined to satyric subjects has taken such possession of those peoples, that, when the Pantomime season comes round in each city, they leave all else and sit for whole days watching Titans and. From Wordnik.com. [Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02] Reference
There’s a tremendous bronze sculpture by Algardi of St Michael finishing off a remarkably satyric-looking demon. From Wordnik.com. [A glimpse of Greece in Bologna] Reference
‘satyric’ drama, the Latin ‘satirical’ poetry, are still assumed by most to have something to do with one another. From Wordnik.com. [English Past and Present] Reference
But the plot of this satyric or Selinic drama has been detected, and you must not allow him, Agathon, to set us at variance. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume I (of X) - Greece] Reference
A ludicrous diction, through its passing out of its satyric stage, it assumed, though only at a late point in its progress, a tone of dignity; and its metre changed then from trochaic to iambic. From Wordnik.com. [Poetics. English] Reference
Under his satyric grace. From Wordnik.com. [Poems: New and Old] Reference
Satyr, satyric 249, 250. From Wordnik.com. [English Past and Present] Reference
Posted by: satyric | January 3, 2011 3:38 PM. From Wordnik.com. [Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post] Reference
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