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It’s no spoiler to point out that the brilliant Ward employs a Dantean structure as Annis makes her descent and, at last, her rebirth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2023
The coronavirus hit these small gatherings hard, but by meeting again, these regulars embodied the best in Dantean resistance and hope.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 4, 2021
Even in my despair, though, I had to reluctantly acknowledge that my Dantean melodramatics were bordering on the histrionic.
From Slate ● Feb. 7, 2017
In 1926, the archeologist and social activist Umberto Zanotti Bianco called Matera “a Dantean horror.”
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 20, 2015
It seems a long way from Dante to Emerson, and yet there are Dantean passages in "Woodnotes" and "Voluntaries."
From Cambridge Sketches by Frank Preston Stearns
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