Dantesque

The urgency does not flow from a burning desire to avert cataclysmic climate change, since the negotiators know full well that the paltry emissions cuts they are proposing are a guarantee that temperatures will rise a "Dantesque" 3. 9C, as Bill McKibben puts it.

Countercurrents.org 2009

Zavala, the national fire chief, said the blaze was of "Dantesque proportions."

Fire kills 27 at drug rehabilitation centre in Peru 2012

And his Dantesque face and poet's soul singing his chant of the flesh, the very priest of Love?

WHEN GOD LAUGHS 2010

Score-settling, resentment, laziness, schadenfreude, envy, sadism, wrath, gloom, betrayal, hypocrisy — these Dantesque transgressions often take hold and lead critical prose to places that hard fact and solid argument alone simply do not travel.

Sunday Salon: Negative Reviews, nasty Responses 2009

Score-settling, resentment, laziness, schadenfreude, envy, sadism, wrath, gloom, betrayal, hypocrisy — these Dantesque transgressions often take hold and lead critical prose to places that hard fact and solid argument alone simply do not travel.

2009 July 19 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS 2009

It is music of drastic intellectuality, clothed in a Dantesque drama.

Radical Romanticism David Dubal 2012

When they rolled up, we drove into the Dantesque scene of men with welding helmets, torches, saws, mallets, and spray paint equipment.

Haunted Honeymoon Marta Acosta 2010

Though a factory worker, Tsuchikura made a Dantesque comparison.

Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010

More than once I sat quietly in our playroom listening while Ladd described to Dad the Dantesque inferno developing in Vietnam.

Going Home to Glory David Eisenhower 2010

The Dantesque treatments of bloodletting, mercury, and cauterizing his penis with red-hot wire had not given him relief, but he continued them as an act of contrition.

'Island Beneath the Sea' 2010