(n.) The nether world (according to classical mythology, the abode of the shades, ruled over by Hades or Pluto); the invisible world; the grave.
Example Sentences:
(1) Aside from the US presidency, the big debate of Bilderberg 2012 is likely to be: what in Hades do we do about Greece?
(2) Cerberus, named after the mythical three-headed dog that guards Hades , declined to comment on why a Dutch entity had bought the mortgages or whether it would pay the same amount of UK tax as a UK-registered entity would have done.
(3) In another herd -- numbering 18 sows -- all sows which hade farrowed during the last 4 months before the present investigation, had developed the Mastitis-Metritis-Agalactia syndrome (MMA).
(4) There was no way we were going to put wigs on them, it was already hotter than Hades on the set.
(5) Based on the fantasy novel by Joe Hill , this looks like one of those teen-orientated movies you really wish had been directed by David Cronenberg as a full-on body horror in which Radcliffe slowly metamorphosises into a hideous creature from the seventh layer of Hades.
(6) Timarion, the fictive narrator, falls ill with a fever and is brought to Hades by two conductors of souls.
(7) It was very toddler unfriendly; I must have asked in about 25 bistros if they hade a high chair, and they would look at me as if I’d asked to bring my horse into the restaurant.
(8) In order to estimate the combined effect of ethanol and fatigue on the activity of tendon reflexes, the mechanical threshhold and the latency of the patellar tendon, the radial and the biceps reflexes as well as the time of contraction of the musculus quadriceps femoris was investigated in men, with an ethanol level in blood at 80 mg % during elimination-period, and with tired subjects meaning that they hade done their usual daywork and had been awake for about 20 to 22 hours.
(9) In Scotland, for example, we have found that Cerberus is tougher in enforcing breaches in covenants.” Taking its name from the mythical multi-headed dog that guarded Hades and prevented the dead from leaving, the New York-based group was founded by Stephen Feinberg and other former employees of Drexel Burnham Lambert, a junk bond specialist that collapsed into bankruptcy in 1990.
(10) Patients with a tumor size of less than 5 cm hade a 5-year survival rate of 21%, but 38% of the patients had a tumor size of greater than 10 cm and none of these lived for more than 4 years.
(11) He wrote his first story while still at school: The Hades Business, originally published in the school magazine.
(12) Half a mile across the sea is the legendary island of Keros, once thought to be the doorway to Hades, and now uninhabited except for teams of visiting archeologists from Cambridge University picking through the rich remains of Bronze Age Cycladic history.
(13) In Hades Timarion sues to the court of judges of the dead.
(14) The tumors of different histological types hade close sensitivity to the tested drugs.
(15) This was Operation Hades, later renamed the friendlier Operation Ranch Hand – the source of what Vietnamese doctors call a "cycle of foetal catastrophe".
(16) According to a decree by Asclepios and Hippocrates posted in Hades, any person that has lost one of his four elements may not live longer.
Orpheus
Definition:
(n.) The famous mythic Thracian poet, son of the Muse Calliope, and husband of Eurydice. He is reputed to have had power to entrance beasts and inanimate objects by the music of his lyre.
Example Sentences:
(1) Orpheus, the great musician of myth, sits at its centre strumming a lyre, while a fox leaps at his feet.
(2) By naming a canvas "Bacchus" or "Orpheus" he didn't so much imply a narrative but use the resonance of the name and its residual impact in the viewer's mind to give an extra depth.
(3) When the railway workers cut through into the Roman villa, a junior engineer, Thomas Marsh, made beautiful, precise plans and illustrations of the remains, and the splendid Orpheus mosaic, in a more or less pristine state, was set duly into the wall of Keynsham station.
(4) For services to the Retail Industry and voluntary service particularly through the Orpheus Foundation.
(5) In Ovid's story abut Orpheus, the singer-poet ends up being torn limb from limb, broken apart by angry maenads.
(6) PR Photograph: PR Of course Duke and Ocean are a strange construct – an oatmeal Orpheus and Eurydice for the exercise-obsessed yuppie class – but then Lululemon is a strange concept.
(7) Myth has a role, too: the stories of Persephone and Orpheus, who traveled to the underworld.
(8) Soon after leaving for Nigeria in 1957, he joined the University of Ibadan, where he not only made friends with such rising literary talent as Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe and Christopher Okigbo, but helped launch two literary magazines, one of which was the celebrated Black Orpheus.
(9) The operas Herbert designed included Gluck's Orpheus And Euridice (Sadler's Wells, 1967), Verdi's La Forza del Destino (Paris Opera, 1977), Kurt Weill and Brecht's The Rise And Fall Of The City Of Mahagonny and Mozart's Die Entführung Aus Dem Serail (both at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, 1979) and Harrison Birtwistle's The Mask Of Orpheus (London Coliseum, 1986).