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US
/ˈkɔɹɪk/
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ADJECTIVE
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relating to or written for or in the style of a Greek chorus
a choric Greek tragedy
How To Use choric In A Sentence
- Where Brecht uses song or projected words upon a screen, Shakespeare is more likely to use choric characters who may utter highly wrought poetic speeches of some length only to disappear for the rest of the play.
- In the same excavations on Temple Hill, Robinson found a second example of a similar Archaic sacrificial calendar incised, boustrophedon, in the epichoric Corinthian alphabet, this time on a fragmentary lead tablet.
- The songs sung in Dappu Dance are choric and sometimes erotic. Untouchable Spring .... అంటరాని వసంతం
- In the same way, the sight of his father defeated by unemployment provides Death of a Salesman with its Greek, choric universality.
- Key reproductive features: iteroparous; seasonal breeding; gonochoric/gonochoristic/dioecious (sexes separate); sexual The News is NowPublic.com - NowPublic.com: The News is Now Public
- The evening really belongs, however, to the unseen Kieve who can make inanimate objects skim through the air, and who finally has Gary Wilmot as a choric tramp locked in a trunk only to reappear seconds later at the back of the stalls. The Invisible Man – review
- We hear iambs, trochees, Virgil's hexameters, the Norse alliterative lines, each arranged in their various couplets, quatrains, choric stanzas, gnomic verses, and much more besides.
- a choric Greek tragedy
- My observation is that directly as our choric insistence on the restoration of values has swelled, so our own personal embodiment of those values in our daily conduct has sunk. The Values Split Screen
- This song is sung by Pete Townshend, whose voice in the film is a kind of choric narrator, directly addressing the audience as in Greek tragedy.