Word: tantalus
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...allusions and terms turns into a weird poem on current events: “A dramatic monologue: a soliloquy. Subjectivity, objectivity, and euphemism. Conceit: hyperbole. Inversion and irony… the tragic flaw. Protagonist or antihero? Point of view! Epic elements, oxymoronic furies, paradoxical fates. Icarus and Daedalus, or Tantalus and Sisyphus? Or Pandora...
...TANTALUS British theater titans Peter Hall and John Barton use the mythic Trojan War as the centerpiece of their adventurously scaled, sharply written satire of modern politics. This 10-hour marathon, which premiered in Denver, bristles with enough backstabbing drama to keep the slack moments...
...TANTALUS British theater titans Peter Hall and John Barton use the mythic Trojan War as the centerpiece of their adventurously scaled, sharply written satire of modern politics. This 10-hour marathon, which premiered in Denver, bristles with enough backstabbing drama to keep the slack moments...
...ventures have produced more noble failures than the quest to power civilization with renewable energy from geophysical forces -- the winds, the tides and, most of all, the sun's rays. "To date the history of solar has been the story of Tantalus: year after year the prize has remained, maddeningly, just beyond reach," noted a FORTUNE magazine story. It ended on a hopeful note: "The period of solar frustration is drawing to a close." Date of the story: September 1979. In fact, the period of solar frustration was just beginning...
...last decade of his life, Paul Cézanne experienced, perhaps more fully than any great artist since Michelangelo, the anxiety of Tantalus. The more he painted, the more he saw. The more he saw, the more manifold and unattainable truth became. "I must tell you," Cézanne wrote to his son six weeks before his death in the fall of 1906, "that as a painter I am becoming more clear-sighted before nature, but with me the realization of my sensations is always painful. I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses...