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“The artist struggling for perfect abstract expression is trying to imitate God's self-sufficiency; the surrealist struggling to lay out the movement of thought or language as such, independent of the act of intelligible communication, is likewise engaged in a 'promethean' enterprise.”
“Our district is providing many teachers (over 250) with promethean boards.”
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“The blue states primarily fear that the promethean anti-darwinian social darwinistic red states will infect the superior performance of the blue states.”
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“Considering technology in general, Pope Benedict warns against the “promethean presumption” that we can re-create ourselves through technology, and reprises his teaching on the means of social communication urging that these too should have the good of the human person at the heart of their activity, rather than taking refuge in a supposed moral neutrality which ultimately destroys social relationships.”
“I still don ` t understand how a 14 karat gold bedecked promethean casket can get lost.”
“After a promising start detailing the career of the first promethean consultant, the book descends into a confusing jumble of names and malign intentions, skipping backwards and forwards chronologically with only a hint of a narrative: Things got bad, then they got worse, and now they're plumb awful.”
“We are installing promethean boards in many classrooms next year, my fear is that teachers will continue to stand in front of the class and not allow students to "do work.”
“Giants of culture and humanism elsewhere in Europe swooned over Napoleon in his prime as a figure, both promethean and protean, who was capable of imagining and leading a community of many nations and cultures.”
“At SRB ignitionAtlantis rose on promethean pillars of fire.”
“Although great mathematicians possess a promethean creativity, at the same time, they know that they are not “inventing” anything.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘promethean’.
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fancy essay words
hiatus, ontology, exegesis, hermeneutics, dialectics, demiurge, ascertain, contention, eschatological, synecdoche, centripetal, centrifugal and 96 more...
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RitaJKing's list
transparency
shimmer, fantastical, sansula, rapture, melancholy, obviated, parenthetically, apoplexy, indelible, pillory, demagogues, quark and 41 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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quality words
This is a mix of new words I've read studying for the GRE verbal and words I use normally. I also check back on these words if I don't use them often enough.
ineffable, septuagenarian, sesquipedalian, argyle, coalescence, profundity, vivisepulture, defenestrate, concatenate, usurp, diatribe, veracious and 461 more...
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words found to be generally pleasing
alabaster, mahogany, camphor, coalesce, spire, portmanteau, gadabout, palaver, dolor, dour, dun, luminesce and 610 more...
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AbraxasZugzwang's Words
atavism, abraxas, sisyphean, frust, fetus-in-fetu, arhythmically, queef, epidemiology, abecedarian, troglodyte, chiaroscuro, philology and 631 more...
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vorpal's Words
parabiosis, penumbra, defenestrate, portmanteau, sturm und drang, perspicacious, quixotic, copacetic, obfuscate, inveigle, shadenfreude, cloister and 349 more...
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Hitch Words
Words from the lexicon of Christopher Hitchens
propinquity, fratricide, factitious, vitiate, sectarianism, ostensible, atavistic, sephardic, doyen, palpable, encephalitic, fastidious and 188 more...
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kewpid's Words
moleskine, araldite, dessicate, cellar door, grotesque, fallacy, vendetta, raindrop, panacea, ethereal, hircus, treppenwitz and 446 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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Sunbeam
Zoom'om'om; inspiration, vitality, solemness, and sunrays...
inspiral, activation, envision, myselves, recognition, imagination, repattern, exponential, flashforward, syncronicity, swish, sensation and 177 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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Oh them words, them words
My fancies, my cudgels.
liquescent, ferly, lamia, basilisk, trigon, fantast, stirp, tristesse, enfleurage, stemma, formicary, lacrimation and 346 more...
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geekwad's Words
mysterium, elif, reckon, shadowy, ostensibly, unique, foodie, surreptitiously, asynchronous, insane, berserk, space pirate and 235 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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segue, palimpsest, bête noire, farrago, expatiate, nadir, protean, fulsome, constitutional, quondam, sinecure, vainglory and 324 more...
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reesetee Can one be antimethean? May 21, 2008
chained_bear Always makes me think of those "Prometheus and Bob" clips on "KABLAM!" :) May 20, 2008
whichbe So boldly creative as to have a life-giving quality; inspiring. (from WordCraft) May 20, 2008
seanahan Prometheus meaning forethought, and Epimetheus meaning afterthought. For those who aren't up on they're mythology (like me), they were brothers. Aug 14, 2007
stpeter Naturally the opposite is epimethean. Aug 14, 2007