dithyrambic

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When I left the politicians, I went to the poets; tragic, dithyrambic, and all sorts.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

The 400 members and guests of the Poetry Society of America gave out a dithyrambic cheer of agreement as they presented the society's Gold Medal for Distinguished Achievement to Marianne Moore, 79.

From Time Magazine Archive

The critics saluted in dithyrambic terms Abe Lincoln in Illinois, a timely and fervent chronicle but not much by way of drama.

From Time Magazine Archive

The "dithyrambic prose" which excited avant-garde blurbists in Tropic of Cancer�and which was frequently tiresome�has been kept in hand by a new sense of structure �a better interplay of narrative and reminiscence.

From Time Magazine Archive

One proud lady, whose husband, in the words of a dithyrambic guide-book, "made a fortune from a patent glove-hook," boasts that her mansion has a glass-room on the second floor.

From American Sketches 1908 by Whibley, Charles