Basilius
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Basilius, the tyrannical king, is played by a scruffy, cigar-chomping Lea DeLaria, who tramps around the stage with the bent strut of Groucho Marx.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 16, 2021
Hobson plays King Basilius like a boy trying to overcompensate for his self-consciousness at a middle-school dance, flip-flopping between peacock machismo and hand-wringing insecurity.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 12, 2019
King Basilius, meanwhile, asks the oracle, “Art thou man or woman?”
From The New Yorker • Jul. 27, 2018
Despite his pretense of nonbelief, Basilius is disturbed by the oracle’s dark words and decides to outrun misfortune by getting out of Arcadia.
From New York Times • Aug. 17, 2015
St. Basilius, writing later still, declared that the Homeric epics were a perpetual praise of right.
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Saltus, Edgar
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