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“In connection with one of his legends, the myth of Dionysus Zagreus, we find traces of an esoteric doctrine, taught by what were known as the orphic sects, very curiously opposed, one would have said, to the general trend of Greek conceptions.”
“During that same time in art history, however, you had the impressionists, the post-impressionists, the cubists, the orphic (abstract) cubists, the abstract branch of the surrealists, the abstract expressionists, the color-field painters, the minimalists and the beginnings of the postminimalists and conceptual art.”
“The analogy of the corpse thus depicts the resistance to understanding — the backwardness — of the orphic measure and of things prior to the”
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“Greek lyric poetry lost much of its orphic electricity as Hellenic civilization evolved, and not simply for want of fresh Sapphos.”
“The relative silence was interrupted by plaintive, orphic sounds of a flute played by a uniformed high school student who sat stiffly on the steps leading into the monument.”
“In many ways it besot him like orphic sound to a musician, or the tenebrisms of artists (Carvaggios like himself); but nonetheless he continued to project blame at the bearded anathema beneath him, and he still glanced down periodically at the floor hoping to find the putative agents of the odor, evidence to bolster his bilious conclusions, being in full denial of himself.”
“He wanted to introduce if not explain something so ineffable and orphic to which a mortal could only awkwardly utter that inadequate word,”
“Amber failed to educe from him any satisfactory explanation of this orphic utterance.”
“Here, in the tenets of these orphic sects, we have the doctrine of "original sin," the conception of life as a struggle between two opposing principles, and the promise of an ultimate redemption by the help of the divine power.”
“These are the oracles and orphic words that get lodged in the mind and bend a man's most stubborn will.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘orphic’.
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Mythical Qualities
Adjectives derived from mythological figures
saturnine, apollonian, dionysian, oedipal, mercurial, martial, erotic, aphrodisiac, orphic, titanic, herculean, puckish and 20 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, O
opacity, opaline, olfactory, orthoepy, orthoepy, oleaginous, obloquy, oasitic, obtrude, orthotic, overweening, ostinato and 125 more...
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colleen's words
yellow, green, pie, blue, fur, people, incense, book, brown, avuncular, mountain, fog and 1316 more...
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Myth
augean, bacchanal, cereal, cimmerian, cupidity, cyclopean, mercurial, jovial, hermetic, halcyon, titanic, furious and 105 more...
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bosporian's Words
corybantiasm, delphic, oneiromancy, bibliothecary, wyrd, lygophilia, cimmerian, agathodaemon, crepuscular, ignosis, peisithanatos, alpenglow and 94 more...
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wordsmith III: revenge of wordie
sedimentary, igneous, segment, surfeit, unctuous, magma, garble, ransack, concubine, coincide, metamorphic, clastic and 208 more...
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Sounds and smells
Beautiful words for the things we sense.
orphic, ambergris, symphonious, fusillade, olfactory, ambrosial, emanate, vetyver
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poetic & exotic
gloaming, nacreous, limpid, lambent, limn, elegiac, arenaceous, boreal, harlequin, sphinx, alfresco, coruscate and 109 more...
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gorgonglare's list
the best
zeppelin, ion, laconic, serendipity, cataract, saturnine, syzygy, cinnabar, bistro, lithium, paroxysm, scion and 694 more...
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Mellifluous Words
farouche, charivari, rhadamanthine, amaranthine, mellifluous, serviette, luncheonette, vagrant, sorbet, nadir, vanguard, paladin and 76 more...
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fou
riant, revenant, djinn, orphic, linsey-woolsey, nadir, insouciant, infidel, pallor, vitreous, lucent, prosaic and 5 more...
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perhapsolutely's Words
polyradiculoneuro..., abulia, abubble, abscission, abaft, zareba, abatis, abigail, abiogenesis, ablate, ablaut, abo and 1705 more...
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Adjectives that used to be gods
bacchanalian, dionysian, aegean, aeolian, herculean, hermetic, junoesque, martial, narcissistic, orphic, satanic, procrustean and 4 more...
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eponymous adjectives
There are tons, of course; these are just the ones I've added for some reason or other.
derridean, promethean, nietzschean, apollonian, dionysian, jungian, sadistic, masochistic, quixotic, sapphic, platonic, draconian and 30 more...
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