In literary terms, Apollonian is the order, while Dionysian is the chaos. From Wordnik.com. [Apollonian and Dionysian Themes « Write Anything] Reference
For Nietzsche, life is a struggle between man's elevated, "Apollonian" inclinations, and his passionate, "Dionysian" ones. From Wordnik.com. [What Music Has Lost] Reference
An interesting thought I take out of this article is the concepts of "Apollonian" (pro-orthodox) and "Dionysian" (anti-orthodox) research. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-07-01] Reference
From the earliest moments of ballet, the idea was to create some kind of Apollonian image. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
Disney cartoons were tame, conventional, Apollonian. From Wordnik.com. [Inspired by a Bunny Wabbit] Reference
Shifting the balance with its Apollonian counterpart?. From Wordnik.com. [Doreen - II] Reference
Both theorists classify along Apollonian and Dionysian axes. From Wordnik.com. [06 « September « 2007 « Jahsonic] Reference
He's the Apollonian counterpart to Kirk, the Dionysian hothead. From Wordnik.com. [Why We Need Steve Jobs] Reference
Guerrino Lovato explains on page 101 that Apollonian restraint and. From Wordnik.com. [The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt: Questions] Reference
Ahem… now back to my normal mode of reasoned, Apollonian discourse. From Wordnik.com. [My Bologna Has a Second Name: It’s M-Y-E-R-S : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits] Reference
You see a very order lifestyle where everything makes sense (Apollonian). From Wordnik.com. [Apollonian and Dionysian Themes « Write Anything] Reference
Caesar in the Apollonian one, he did not tell us who that person would be. From Wordnik.com. [DETERMINISM IN HISTORY] Reference
They are the Apollonian and the Dionysian principles expressed in narrative. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-08-05] Reference
He is - as I also said in that article, he has always seemed Apollonian to me. From Wordnik.com. [Bill T. Jones Remembers Merce Cunningham] Reference
We were almost openly dismissive of prudence, humility -- the Apollonian virtues. From Wordnik.com. [Carl Pope: Which Impossible Dream?] Reference
From first chapter to last, my thesis is that all writing, all art is Apollonian. From Wordnik.com. [Feminism and Literature: An Exchange] Reference
To paraphrase Nietzsche, there are two types of Greek: the Apollonian and the Dionysian. From Wordnik.com. [Middlesex]
Throughout Danse Macabre, he discusses Apollonian and Dionysian themes, but what are they?. From Wordnik.com. [Apollonian and Dionysian Themes « Write Anything] Reference
Nevertheless Hellenic culture did not become an aggregate, thanks to that Apollonian saying. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-06-01] Reference
The woman is Apollonian – enlightened, disciplined, creative, and dwelling in the heavens. From Wordnik.com. [NATURE VS. THE BEAST » Sociological Images] Reference
(Kulturen) Spengler opposed the Faustian culture-soul of the West to the Apollonian (or Euclidian) and. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
The Apollonian and Dionysian is a philosophical and literary concept based on parts of ancient Greek mythology. From Wordnik.com. [Apollonian and Dionysian Themes « Write Anything] Reference
She fought to absorb him, impress him upon her memory: ice-blue eyes, thin firm mouth, black hair, Apollonian torso. From Wordnik.com. [Achille's Choice]
One of my original ideas was to parse the blogosphere through Nietzsche's dialectic of the Apollonian and Dionysian. From Wordnik.com. [How do you spell 'poopoo-ing?'] Reference
They introduced me to concepts like the Apollonian and Dionysian split, the poetry of Coleridge, the books of Ayn Rand. From Wordnik.com. [This is your art world] Reference
Order needs to be created by constant infusions of education and city planning; it is a source of Apollonian pleasure. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-09-01] Reference
Every woman who takes pen or brush in hand is making an Apollonian swerve away from nature, even when nature is her subject. From Wordnik.com. [Feminism and Literature: An Exchange] Reference
I suspect Brooks was only pretending to take up the Dionysian perspective and that he shares Fukuyama's Apollonian predisposition. From Wordnik.com. [Philocrites: Conservatism's Apollo and would-be Dionysus.] Reference
He is both creator and destroyer and as Soyinka sees him has traits that lead one's thoughts to the Dionysian, the Apollonian and the. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Prize in Literature 1986 - Press Release] Reference
Opposite the Apollonian world of crabon fribé Pro Tour race bike construction is the Dionysian realm of custom steel frame building. From Wordnik.com. [Some Assembly Required: Group Rides and Product Development] Reference
The Apollonian refers and I paraphrase to symmetry, invention and elegance; the Dionysian, to art more from the gut, more spontaneous. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference
He concluded that European culture since the time of Socrates had remained one-sidedly Apollonian, bottled-up, and relatively unhealthy. From Wordnik.com. [Friedrich Nietzsche] Reference
As the ideal Dionysian complement to the cerebral, Apollonian aspects, there are also talks on the recent renaissance of Greek wine-making. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-08-01] Reference
It was based on a mathematical theorem called an Apollonian. From Wordnik.com. [TreeHugger] Reference
It doesn't take him any Herculean discipline or Apollonian inner exertion to do it, either. From Wordnik.com. [InstaPunk] Reference
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