thanatos

As they were about to land, Onassis turned to Caroli and said, Professor, do you know the meaning of the Greek word thanatos?

American Legacy C. David Heymann 2007

As they were about to land, Onassis turned to Caroli and said, Professor, do you know the meaning of the Greek word thanatos?

American Legacy C. David Heymann 2007

Some call thanatos "the death wish," to "go out in a blaze of glory," mental state suggested in the last days of Applewhite in Heaven's Gate, Jim Jones at Jonestown, and Koresh at Waco

Brain Blogger Frank MacHovec 2010

This one evokes a kind of thanatos–a sense that the end is so close one might just as well give up to it and be taken.

Amazing tornado photo | clusterflock 2008

The Skull's villainy goes beyond the Nazi origin to become an archetype of the death impulse or "thanatos", the ruthless use of power to either oppress or kill.

John Seavey’s Storytelling Engines: Captain America | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2007

The ancient Greeks eventually came to use "thanatos" as a generic word for "death."

Black Market Kidneys » In Which I Learn That Nas Mislead Me* 2005

When the novel came out in September we lauded its abundant pathos, along with its many servings of "hubris, nemesis, thanatos and even a comical dollop of misbegotten eros."

A Prize Winner With a Poignant Sense of Loss Meghan Cox Gurdon 2012

They are the ones with the wicked thoughts on their mind. thanatos

Iranian leader: Obama administration 'wicked,' 'untrustworthy' 2010

There is pathos aplenty in Jack Gantos's new novel for readers ages 10 to 15, along with hubris, nemesis, thanatos and even a comical dollop of misbegotten eros—all the elements of great drama, in other words, set in one boy's calamitous summer vacation, in 1962, in a fading western Pennsylvania town.

Struck By Myriad Delights Meghan Cox Gurdon 2011

I asked Kitano --- which the translator nicely translated for me as Freud's thanatos.

Karin Badt: Kitano Outdoes Kick-Ass Violence at Cannes 2010