Word: sophoclean
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...little young still for what I have to go through."). And when she sits down and looks out into the audience, her beautifully sculptured expression sends one's mind back to thoughts of Greta Garbo. Her Antigone is proud and courageous and noble. But instead of a Sophoclean serenity she is seized with anguish. She is not so concerned with the eternal repose of Polyneices as with the right to dissent when conscience dictates. She tells Creon, "I am not here to understand.... I am here to say no to you, and die." But she is not against Creon personally...
...Sophoclean Horror. First policeman on the scene was Patrolman Daniel Kelly, who, by tragic coincidence, had known Gloria Davy and used to date her sister Charlene. Said another officer: "The bodies were piled up like in a Nazi prison camp." It was indeed a scene of Sophoclean horror. A pool of blood glistened on the floor of one bedroom. In another, a torn, blood-soaked bed comforter lay under a two-piece yellow-and-white bathing suit that had been hung up to dry. The pages of a mimeographed lecture ("The Mental Mechanisms for Ego Defense") were strewn about...
From a federal court in Montgomery at week's end came a final, Sophoclean footnote to the tragedy. Ruling that civil rights workers' original arrests in Fort Deposit were illegal, Judge Frank M. Johnson held that they had simply been exercising their right of peaceful assembly. Thus, Jon Daniels' life might never have been lost if his own civil rights had not been violated in the first place...
...tragedy of Sam and Henny is no grand Sophoclean descent into doom. They live like a couple of roaches battling over garbage, and fate simply sluices them down the drain. But every page is written with battering intensity. The Man Who Loved Children is a big black diamond of a book, an exotic and virulent attar of hatred...
...ambitious paramour Aegisthus murder King Agamemnon, Electra's father, upon his return from the Trojan War. After that, treated like an outcast in the palace, Electra counts on her brother Orestes to return and avenge their father. At Orestes' seeming death, a clever display of Sophoclean theatricality, her hopes are dashed only to spiral into joy when her brother reveals he is alive in the famed recognition scene. Up to this point, Electra has been a kind of female Hamlet except that her griefs lie all without. After this point, she and Orestes dispatch Clytemnestra and Aegisthus with...