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  • adjective Of or pertaining to Sophocles or his works.

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Sophocles +‎ -an

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Examples

  • "Sophoclean" in that their lives are controlled by fate (And not "Freudian," since they didn't want to get it on with Mommy).

    Lit and Myth in Video Games Richard Nokes 2006

  • That was certainly true of one of the Tricycle's most famous tribunal plays, The Colour of Justice, which showed an almost Sophoclean capacity for gradual revelation.

    Tactical Questioning - review 2011

  • A partial of spoke of a "Sophoclean confidence" of a tragic hero whose hubris creates him cocksure which a fates have been his friends.

    Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia admin 2009

  • A partial of spoke of a "Sophoclean confidence" of a tragic hero whose hubris creates him cocksure which a fates have been his friends.

    Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009

  • For this reason it is often seen as the most Sophoclean of Euripides 'extant plays.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Jonathan Aquino 2009

  • That was certainly true of one of the Tricycle's most famous tribunal plays, The Colour of Justice, which showed an almost Sophoclean capacity for gradual revelation.

    Tactical Questioning - review 2011

  • For this reason it is often seen as the most Sophoclean of Euripides 'extant plays.

    Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World Jonathan Aquino 2009

  • If uttered in the first act of a Greek tragedy, it is exactly the kind of claim that would end in a Sophoclean fall.

    Five myths about the Iraq troop withdrawal 2010

  • His simple, literal defintion of aletheia as “uncoveredness” is an incredible simplification of the meanings and origins of the word, something he quickly has reduced, in largely Sophoclean fashion, to a trope of cloaking and residual depth.

    Archive 2009-03-01 enowning 2009

  • His simple, literal defintion of aletheia as “uncoveredness” is an incredible simplification of the meanings and origins of the word, something he quickly has reduced, in largely Sophoclean fashion, to a trope of cloaking and residual depth.

    enowning enowning 2009

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