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How to use Sophoclean in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word Sophoclean? Here are some examples.

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At this time he was also working on the play Robert Guiskard, an ambitious work in which he attempted to unite ancient Sophoclean tragedy and the Shakespearean drama of character, but it would remain a fragment.
Astropelos is a simple beach restaurant run by Maria Fioravante, a striking woman with the bearing and locomotion of a Sophoclean chorister in a chiton, with a spritz of California.
Bergman's script does not say whether the Electra during which Elisabet has gone mute is the Sophoclean tragedy or the more comical, parodic version by Euripides.
This essay gives a particularly strong reading of these narrating voices as 'exceeding' the Sophoclean polarities represented by Antigone and her sister Ismene.
In the financial press, the fall of Facebook has been spun out like a sophoclean tragedy.
Examples from Classical Literature
The end of Aegisthus himself is contrived with Sophoclean art.
You might have a thousand groupings, dispersions, regroupings, in as perfect bas-relief style as those of any sophoclean drama.
Yes, but the identity of the protagonists in this sophoclean tragedy is still a little in doubt.
Euripides has drawn the character of Peleus with something of the heat and fury of the sophoclean Teiresias.
The result was that peculiar mixture of grace, dignity, and natural eloquence which scholars know as sophoclean.
But I am afraid of his mending ill with ill, as the sophoclean saying goes.
There was about her tears a sophoclean, almost a Niobesque quality.
It is in the sophoclean play that Electra is most prominent.
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