Tamburlaine
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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I went with my boyfriend to Tamburlaine and saw Steven with his entourage and he said, “Ditch the boyfriend. Come sit with us.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 3, 2019
The centrepiece was his heroic, muscular and glistening Tamburlaine in Peter Hall’s 1976 defiant staging of Marlowe’s two-part mighty epic, twirling an axe to deadly effect.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 8, 2019
Ask around, and no one seems to like him, though many call him effective and all agree he is the city’s supremely influential cultural leader, a Tamburlaine of contemporary art.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 13, 2015
Tamburlaine, on the other hand, “declares allegiance to and war on almost every conceivable deity,” said McCoy.
From Forbes ● Dec. 28, 2014
A play such as Marlowe's Tamburlaine can never be regarded as great drama.
From Personality in Literature by Rolfe Arnold Scott-James
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