furies

Provok'd to vengeance, to my aid I call The furies round, and dip my pens in gall j Not one fliail * fcapc of all the cozening fex,

The Works of the English Poets 1779

It is without doubt upon the principle that the Greeks called the furies Eumenides, “good hearts.”

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

The Codex Alera is a fantasy series set within the savage world of Carna, where spirits of the elements, known as furies, lurk in every facet of life, and where many intelligent races vie for security and survival.

Dead Beat Butcher, Jim 2005

He really develops the idea that conscience denied is what leads us further into the wilderness; that the "furies" of conscience drive us to break more and more with the "law written our hearts".

"Objections, Obstacles, Acceptance" 2005

The economic world as we know it may be ending, but the left can't summon the kind of furies that got us into Iraq, declared gay marriage its buzzword name.

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2009

The economic world as we know it may be ending, but the left can't summon the kind of furies that got us into Iraq, declared gay marriage its buzzword name.

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2009

Daniel Mendelsohn does a good job of teasing out the implications of this strategy in his review of The Kindly Ones (the title being a direct reference to the "furies" of Aeschylus's play, who are transformed at the end of the play into "kindly ones"), and while I agree with Mendelsohn that Littell employs the strategy skillfully, I can't agree that the problem it causes is that, in portraying Aue as "a sex-crazed, incestuous, homosexual, matricidal coprophage," it works against the historical portrayal of Aue as a "human brother."

Translated Texts 2010

Daniel Mendelsohn does a good job of teasing out the implications of this strategy in his review of The Kindly Ones (the title being a direct reference to the "furies" of Aeschylus's play, who are transformed at the end of the play into "kindly ones"), and while I agree with Mendelsohn that Littell employs the strategy skillfully, I can't agree that the problem it causes is that, in portraying Aue as "a sex-crazed, incestuous, homosexual, matricidal coprophage," it works against the historical portrayal of Aue as a "human brother."

Furies 2009

Daniel Mendelsohn does a good job of teasing out the implications of this strategy in his review of The Kindly Ones (the title being a direct reference to the "furies" of Aeschylus's play, who are transformed at the end of the play into "kindly ones"), and while I agree with Mendelsohn that Littell employs the strategy skillfully, I can't agree that the problem it causes is that, in portraying Aue as "a sex-crazed, incestuous, homosexual, matricidal coprophage," it works against the historical portrayal of Aue as a "human brother."

Point of View in Fiction 2009

Daniel Mendelsohn does a good job of teasing out the implications of this strategy in his review of The Kindly Ones (the title being a direct reference to the "furies" of Aeschylus's play, who are transformed at the end of the play into "kindly ones"), and while I agree with Mendelsohn that Littell employs the strategy skillfully, I can't agree that the problem it causes is that, in portraying Aue as "a sex-crazed, incestuous, homosexual, matricidal coprophage," it works against the historical portrayal of Aue as a "human brother."

December 2009 2009