How To Use Eurydice In A Sentence
- Choreographed to the 1947 Stravinsky score, Orpheus cleverly deploys six dancers to dramatise the story of Orpheus and Eurydice, with a chorus of living characters (Orpheus's friends/chorus) and the inhabitants of the underworld (Death and Furies). This week's new dance
- Like Orpheus bringing Eurydice out of the underworld, it seems the novelist cannot look directly at love without losing it.
- In the myth of the Orpheus / Eurydice saga, Orpheus was given a dispensation by Pluto to return his wife from the underworld (she had been bitten by a poisonous serpent and died).
- And while she rescued her drugged Eurydice, her laughter echoed up and down throughout the oubliettes, bouncing back under the high ceiling and between the narrow walls.
- At least Orpheus had known where Eurydice was when he had gone in search of her. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
- Handsome mosaic floors, three aisles, and a semicircular apse give it the look of a church, but stucco friezes on the walls show Orpheus leading Eurydice back from Hades, Heracles rescuing Hesione from the sea monster, and other scenes of mythological deliverance. Underground Rome
- Think of ‘after the poem’ as a consequence of reading, a further poem made necessary and delightful ‘because of it,’ alive by means which mean to continue and never to return Eurydice to the hateful Shades.
- Eurydice picks flowers for her wedding garland and is fatally bitten by the snake.
- Eurydice lay on the ground, gasping for breath, blood pumping from her body in crimson fountains, a flechette buried deep in her chest. Eurydice Redux | Heretical Ideas Magazine
- They sing their tales, including the rape of Proserpina, in dactylic pentameter, as does Orpheus when he charms the king and queen of Hades with his appeal to retrieve Eurydice.
