Example Sentences

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On a bleak set by Madeleine Girling that might be a derelict warehouse in the French Quarter, Williams’s story unspools with Euripidean certainty.

From Washington Post • Apr. 18, 2023

But when Henze received the draft libretto for a Euripidean opera from the poets W.H.

From New York Times • Aug. 17, 2018

We don’t feel the Euripidean conflict between civilization and hedonism or government and anarchy so much as that between personal repression and liberation.

From New York Times • Aug. 14, 2017

Hercules is not the harrowing Euripidean tragedy in which the hero slaughters his family in a fit of insanity, but an amiable comedy for all ages written by Helen Eastman.

From The Guardian • Jul. 30, 2010

The last lines of the Muse have a very Euripidean ring: cf.

From The Rhesus of Euripedes by Euripedes