Gotterdammerung

Gotterdammerung translates as the “twilight of the gods,” I believe, as in the death throes of the once-mighty, armageddon, etc.

Firedoglake » Won’t Get Fooled Again 2006

You mean like Siegfried and Brunhilde in Gotterdammerung?

Think Progress » Nebraska’s Attorney General Suing To Stop Reform Is Clueless About Existing Federal Law 2010

I hadn't my gun within reach, but I'd been playing the cornet, and just as he was crouching I blew a blast from it -- one of those jarring discords of Wagner in the "Gotterdammerung" -- and he turned tail and got away into the bush with a howl.

The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

I hadn't my gun within reach, but I'd been playing the cornet, and just as he was crouching I blew a blast from it -- one of those jarring discords of Wagner in the "Gotterdammerung" -- and he turned tail and got away into the bush with a howl.

The Judgment House Gilbert Parker 1897

I too was there, and felt similarly regarding the third - got a much more interesting performance from Dohnanyi and his Philharmonia friends a week earlier in Gotterdammerung.

Watch the birdie 2008

Humble Elias thinks Mike Wallace can hear the opening bars of the "Gotterdammerung" quite clearly.

The Chimes at Midnight 2005

"Gotterdammerung," in which she was to sing WALTRAUTE two weeks later.

The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather 1915

We shall then save all the time there is, and at the age of thirty-five have lived the allotted seventy years, and long, if not for 'Gotterdammerung', at least for some world where, by touching a button, we can discharge our limbs of electricity and take a little repose.

Complete Essays Charles Dudley Warner 1864

We shall then save all the time there is, and at the age of thirty-five have lived the allotted seventy years, and long, if not for 'Gotterdammerung', at least for some world where, by touching a button, we can discharge our limbs of electricity and take a little repose.

The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864

We shall then save all the time there is, and at the age of thirty-five have lived the allotted seventy years, and long, if not for 'Gotterdammerung', at least for some world where, by touching a button, we can discharge our limbs of electricity and take a little repose.

As We Go Charles Dudley Warner 1864