Icarus

How To Use Icarus In A Sentence

• Indeed, Icarus had been discovered by astronomer Walter Baade during an equally close approach in 1949.
• Flight Through the Ages, which opened with a picture of Icarus and his wax wings, melting when he flew too close to the sun. ANASTASIA KRUPNIK (3-IN-1)
• There is a famous Greek myth in which Icarus flew too near to the Sun.
• And finally I awoke near the end, as Capa is struggling in the bulky EVA suit to reach the payload, and, half awake, I lay there and marveled at the score and what a beautiful thing this vastly underrated film is (my next Mac will be named Icarus). Lughnasadh '08
• There is a famous Greek myth in which Icarus flew too near to the Sun.
• A boy undone by the failure to accept human limits, Icarus is a useful metaphor for the hothouse kid. The Drama of the Gifted Parent
• Like Icarus I had tried to fly too close to the sun and now I was falling to the earth below with all the velocity of a Russian satellite. BETTER THAN THIS
• It shows itself able to function as a flexible vehicle for themes and concerns both timely and timeless; it's as evocative of airplane disasters as of the fall of Icarus.
• Icarus has been made visible by a phenomenon called gravitational lensing which works like a natural magnifying glass. The Sun
• I realised I had missed seeing this incredible event by a matter of seconds - like the lumpish ploughman who fails to witness the fall of Icarus in Auden's Musee des Beaux Arts.