Search Details

Word: triumphant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...social urges. The stories themselves rely heavily on archetypes, and some of the best films of the genre have an allegorical, fairy-tale quality. In pop psychology terms, the monster emerges from the viewer's id, wreaks havoc for awhile, and is destroyed by the hero, who represents the triumphant super...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: The Monsters Within Us | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

...social urges. The stories themselves rely heavily on archetypes, and some of the best films of the genre have an allegorical, fairy-tale quality. In pop psychology terms, the monster emerges from the viewer's id, wreaks havoc for awhile, and is destroyed by the hero, who represents the triumphant super...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: The Monsters Within Us | 9/10/1980 | See Source »

...social urges. The stories themselves rely heavily on archetypes, and some of the best films of the genre have an allegorical, fairy-tale quality. In pop psychology terms, the monster emerges from the viewer's id, wreaks havoc for awhile, and is destroyed by the hero, who represents the triumphant super...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: The Monsters Within Us | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

...SPEECH. How the triumphant candidate accepts the nomination of his party is always billed by his strategists as not only the kickoff of the campaign but the most important speech of the entire presidential race. Well, sometimes it is all that-and sometimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Drawing the Battle Lines | 8/25/1980 | See Source »

...bested Ted as once he beat the killer rabbit, down in the chigger latitudes. He smiles (force of habit) and meditates upon the Garden, like some mildly triumphant parson. Nearly four years pass behind his eyes: golden days, cardigan days, Billy Beer days; the abrupt surprise of Russian nastiness and the South Bronx ghettos. His reveries sweep to Jordan 's squirted Amarettos (a fancy drink for a good ole boy) and Vance and Lance, and jogger's tibia and all the money Billy made for being friends with Libya. But nothing can efface the joy of this renomination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: America Needs a Poet Laureate, Maybe | 8/25/1980 | See Source »

Previous | 162 | 163 | 164 | 165 | 166 | 167 | 168 | 169 | 170 | 171 | 172 | 173 | 174 | 175 | 176 | 177 | 178 | 179 | 180 | 181 | 182 | Next