Mad wanderings through the Dantesque hells of his mind. From Wordnik.com. [The Heirs of Babylon]
What is one to make of this Dantesque nightmare journey?. From Wordnik.com. [The Logic of Torture] Reference
Its fruits are the heads of devils; a true Dantesque fancy. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
Dantesque quality, not of method, but of power, is to be felt in. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
Though a factory worker, Tsuchikura made a Dantesque comparison. From Wordnik.com. [Whirlwind] Reference
But has he preserved it in its force and simplicity and Dantesque directness?. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867] Reference
Lord Vernon has been known for many years as the most munificent fosterer of Dantesque publications. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860] Reference
Jesús lead us to the miserable shanty towns, the Dantesque and subhuman quarters of our great cities. From Wordnik.com. [Miguel Angel Asturias - Nobel Lecture] Reference
Illumination was weaker here than higher up, adding further to the Dantesque aura of his new surroundings. From Wordnik.com. [The Chronicles of Riddick]
There will be Dantesque promenades at different levels of physical prowess -- from weak (center) to strong (periphery). From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-02-01] Reference
The names of the stations in Sebald's Dantesque slippage from "one circle to the next" are located in Norfolk, in East Anglia. From Wordnik.com. [Out of Novemberland] Reference
More than once I sat quietly in our playroom listening while Ladd described to Dad the Dantesque inferno developing in Vietnam. From Wordnik.com. [Going Home to Glory] Reference
It is most astonishing, giving not only the literal corresponding phrase, but the spirit of the original, the true Dantesque manner. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867] Reference
Just as valuable is the manner in which the story claws back out of the inferno of its Dantesque journey to some beatific end point. From Wordnik.com. [Row Three » Review: Blindness - Where Cinema is more than just $100 Million productions] Reference
You and I have visited the lowest Dantesque circles of despair together, and no confidence between us could amount to an indiscretion. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of a Dakota Divorcee] Reference
When they rolled up, we drove into the Dantesque scene of men with welding helmets, torches, saws, mallets, and spray paint equipment. From Wordnik.com. [Haunted Honeymoon] Reference
But Australia, with its bizarre history, surreal wildlife and Dantesque landscape -- both infernal and paradisal -- needs no spicing up. From Wordnik.com. [Did Someone Say No Worries?] Reference
Here the Virgilian and Dantesque schemes are reversed. From Wordnik.com. [The Roof of France] Reference
Shakespearian, the Dantesque, are in a line, two at most. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
The Shakespearian, the Dantesque, are in a line, two at most. From Wordnik.com. [Diana of the Crossways — Complete] Reference
Dantesque plan of the work gave it, with the occasional help of. From Wordnik.com. [Modern Italian Poets Essays and Versions] Reference
Dantesque images and provided illustrations for many a discourse. From Wordnik.com. [Two Sides of the Face Midwinter Tales] Reference
Still more does this Dantesque type differ from the resplendent Plutus of. From Wordnik.com. [The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing] Reference
We want the "inevitable" word, the simple and the home-coming, the Dantesque. From Wordnik.com. [Platform Monologues] Reference
The scientific conception of the sun is strikingly Dantesque, and appalls the imagination. From Wordnik.com. [Birds and Poets : with Other Papers] Reference
"What happened in the higher parts of Funchal was Dantesque," he said in televised remarks. From Wordnik.com. [Stuff.co.nz - Stuff] Reference
In the eighty-acre horse pasture the pony with the Dantesque face grew fat and almost smiling. From Wordnik.com. [Sixes and Sevens] Reference
None but an Italian could have written this pregnant and inexhaustible theme -- truly Dantesque. From Wordnik.com. [Massimilla Doni] Reference
Distinctly Dantesque was the gulf between the huge mountain sides which threatened every moment to fall. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Sir Richard Burton] Reference
If Mr.F. W. Myers hears that some ill-trained observers have seen ghosts, he becomes Dantesque and dithyrambic about. From Wordnik.com. [Without Prejudice] Reference
He anticipates Villon from afar, and is happily described by Mr. Rossetti as the prodigal, or 'scamp' of the Dantesque circle. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III] Reference
Thus crowned, the long-faced quadruped looked more Dantesque than before, and, judging by his countenance, seemed to think of Beatrice. From Wordnik.com. [Sixes and Sevens] Reference
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