Crossword-Solution: HAMARTIA
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| HAMARTIA | anagram | MATAHARI |
We have 1 clue for the answer “HAMARTIA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Fatal flaw, in drama-speak | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETAER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with HAMARTIA (3)
The arresting and triumphant "grip" of the tragic misfortunes of Oedipus and Orestes, the combination of the course of fate and the [Greek: hamartia] of the individual, is totally absent.
While some regard sin simply as a _defect_ or shortcoming, a missing of the mark, as the Greek word _hamartia_ implies, others treat it as a _disease_, or infirmity of the flesh--a malady affecting the physical constitution which may be {29} incurred by heredity or induced by environment.
Her last speech to Lancelot after the catastrophe--Tennyson should have, as has been said, paraphrased this as he paraphrased the passing of her husband, and from the same texts, and we should then have had another of the greatest things of English poetry--shows a noble nature with the [Greek: hamartia] present, but repented in a strange and great mixture of classical and Christian tragedy.
Quotes with HAMARTIA (2)
Everyone in this tale has a rock-solid hamartia: hers, that she is so sick; yours, that you are so well. Were she better or you sicker, then the stars would not be so terribly crossed, but it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he had Cassius, "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.
But of course there is always a hamartia and yours is that oh, my God, even though you HAD FREAKING CANCER you give money to a company in exchange for the chance to acquire YET MORE CANCER.