Crossword-Solution: PERIPETEIA
We have 5 clues for the answer “PERIPETEIA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Unexpected turn of events, as in a literary work | 1 answer |
| Unexpected turn of events, especially in a literary work | 1 answer |
| a sudden or unexpected reversal of circumstances or situation esp in drama | 1 answer |
| Sudden turn of events | 2 answers |
| A SERIOUS TURN OF EVENTS | 10 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree;
supremely admirable; apparently above what is human. In this
application, the word admits of comparison; as, the divinest mind. Sir
J. Davies.
Hint 2 anagram
DVNIIE
Hint 3 another clue
"Delicious!"
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Sentences with PERIPETEIA (5)
Then its high-priest, Govea, died; and, by a peripeteia too common in those days and countries, Buchanan and two of his friends migrated unwillingly from the Temple of the Muses for that of Moloch, and found themselves in the Inquisition.
Besides which, the most powerful elements of emotional: interest in Tragedy Peripeteia or Reversal of the Situation, and Recognition scenes--are parts of the plot.
Justinian treated for peace; and then followed a strange peripeteia, which we have, happily, from an eye-witness, Procopius himself.
Rinaldo's combat with Orlando in the Christian camp furnishes an anagnorisis; while the plot is brought to its conclusion by the peripeteia of Clarice's jealousy and the accidents which restore her to her lover's arms.
Though Sir Henry Fallowfield had never read Aristotle, he had studied, all his life, the principles of the peripeteia.
Quotes with PERIPETEIA (1)
We shoot our heroes and enjoy peripeteia as a spectacle akin to sport and perhaps harshly disavowing the past protects us from the disappointment of our outsized hopes--who knows, really, but shifts in taste don't fully account for the phenomenon. At any rate, nearly everything urgent and alive becomes doo-wop down the road, at least in this country's pop culture, and along the way a somewhat self-hating irony lays waste not only to the work but to the desires it once carried…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1991–2007).