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Gotterdammerung

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  • Gotterdammerung translates as the “twilight of the gods,” I believe, as in the death throes of the once-mighty, armageddon, etc.

    Firedoglake » Won’t Get Fooled Again 2006

  • You mean like Siegfried and Brunhilde in Gotterdammerung?

    Think Progress » Nebraska’s Attorney General Suing To Stop Reform Is Clueless About Existing Federal Law 2010

  • I hadn't my gun within reach, but I'd been playing the cornet, and just as he was crouching I blew a blast from it -- one of those jarring discords of Wagner in the "Gotterdammerung" -- and he turned tail and got away into the bush with a howl.

    The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

  • I hadn't my gun within reach, but I'd been playing the cornet, and just as he was crouching I blew a blast from it -- one of those jarring discords of Wagner in the "Gotterdammerung" -- and he turned tail and got away into the bush with a howl.

    The Judgment House Gilbert Parker 1897

  • I too was there, and felt similarly regarding the third - got a much more interesting performance from Dohnanyi and his Philharmonia friends a week earlier in Gotterdammerung.

    Watch the birdie 2008

  • Humble Elias thinks Mike Wallace can hear the opening bars of the "Gotterdammerung" quite clearly.

    The Chimes at Midnight 2005

  • "Gotterdammerung," in which she was to sing WALTRAUTE two weeks later.

    The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather 1915

  • We shall then save all the time there is, and at the age of thirty-five have lived the allotted seventy years, and long, if not for 'Gotterdammerung', at least for some world where, by touching a button, we can discharge our limbs of electricity and take a little repose.

    Complete Essays Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • We shall then save all the time there is, and at the age of thirty-five have lived the allotted seventy years, and long, if not for 'Gotterdammerung', at least for some world where, by touching a button, we can discharge our limbs of electricity and take a little repose.

    The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • We shall then save all the time there is, and at the age of thirty-five have lived the allotted seventy years, and long, if not for 'Gotterdammerung', at least for some world where, by touching a button, we can discharge our limbs of electricity and take a little repose.

    As We Go Charles Dudley Warner 1864

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