(n.) A fabled monster, half man and half bull, confined in the labyrinth constructed by Daedalus in Crete.
Example Sentences:
(1) In his recent book The Global Minotaur , Varoufakis claims that the notion of a surplus recycling mechanism is simple in theory and revolutionary in its implications.
(2) An Air Force Minotaur V rocket provided the ride from Nasa's Wallops flight facility.
(3) Picasso portrays himself in the 30s as the minotaur, the monster in the labyrinth.
(4) Ticket prices too, have changed – for most shows they climb into three figures, but for operas such as the recent revival of Birtwistle's The Minotaur , which sold out, prices ranged from £3 to £65, and the same is true of next week's UK premiere of George Benjamin's Written on Skin .
(5) Then Theseus arrived, posing as a victim but on a mission to slay the Minotaur.
(6) The Ladee spacecraft, which is charged with studying the lunar atmosphere and dust, soared aboard an unmanned Minotaur rocket a little before midnight.
(7) According to legend, Theseus once slew the Minotaur in the ruins next door, and should the truth out itself, the Bayer family perhaps fear a repeat.
(8) Shamefully few new operas are staged at Covent Garden, but two works it commissioned were winners: Thomas Adès's The Tempest in 2004; and Harrison Birtwistle's The Minotaur, premiered last year.
(9) The idea of a vengeful state that sends young people to be slaughtered came from Theseus and the Minotaur, while the games themselves are modelled on the gladiatorial contests of ancient Rome.
(10) They are closing the gates that should be open.” Alan Gibbons, one of the march’s organisers and the author of Shadow of the Minotaur and other children’s books, said: “Libraries are places of learning and opportunity.
(11) Yet the opposite position on the sexualised culture – that nothing's changed, that porn is still a minority product that you need the nuts of a minotaur to get your hands on – that is not true either.
(12) Nominations in the opera categories are shared between the Royal Opera and the English National Opera, with Covent Garden's Don Carlo and The Minotaur competing in the best new opera category against the Coliseum's Partenope and I Pagliacci.
(13) Nasa chose Wallops for Ladee because of the Minotaur V rocket, comprised of converted intercontinental ballistic missile motors belonging to the Air Force.
Satyr
Definition:
(n.) A sylvan deity or demigod, represented as part man and part goat, and characterized by riotous merriment and lasciviousness.
(n.) Any one of many species of butterflies belonging to the family Nymphalidae. Their colors are commonly brown and gray, often with ocelli on the wings. Called also meadow browns.
(n.) The orang-outang.
Example Sentences:
(1) But when he laughed – which was a lot – he looked like an elderly satyr.
(2) Yet Frost failed to convince Private Eye (launched in 1961), which routinely portrayed him in cartoons – scenes of toga'd Roman decadence were popular in the Profumo scandal phase of Harold Macmillan's rule – as "Juvenile, the court satyr with faithful audience of Daily Mail columnists," a man whose quiff cost 25 guineas at fashionable Raymonde's salon, the Eye told readers.
(3) Picasso is wheeled on too, but his print of a satyr contemplating a nymph is a homage to Rembrandt, not Rubens.
(4) The director of the notorious 1991 French folly Les amants du Pont-Neuf has been away from feature films for more than a decade, and returned at Cannes with the nuttiest offering on display, featuring that wonderful French actor Denis Lavant – part acrobat, part mime artist, part satyr – as Monsieur Oscar, who plays 11 different parts, changing in the back of a white limo as it glides around Paris from one rendezvous to another.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest V&A Collection Andrea Riccio Satyr and Satyress (1510-1520) V&A, London In Greek and Roman mythology satyrs are goat-legged followers of the wine god Bacchus, hairy votaries of sex, dance and ecstasy.
(6) Did I actually fancy this rather strange little satyr of a man in his funny heels?
(7) Comparison of these four patients suggests a characteristic phenotype in the 4q- syndrome: cleft palate, satyr deformity of the pinnae, snub nose, retrognathia and micrognathia, hypertelorism, oropharyngeal hypothonia or upper airway obstruction, cardiac defect, clinodactyly of the fifth fingers with absence of a flexion crease, simian lines, displaced or clinodactylous toes, and mental retardation.
(8) It's a big silver dish decorated with scenes of satyrs and other worshippers of Bacchus, a good theme for a boozy Roman banquet.
(9) My favourite scene is a very hot and very sweet threesome with Mouse, Ben and a beautiful youth dressed as a satyr.
(10) Here, however, the brilliant craftsman Riccio imagines a satyr couple, tenderly embracing in some balmy woodland nook.
(11) However, in a few species, including the ostrich, rheas, kiwis, some tinamous, the red-throated loon, screamers, the satyr tragopan, the great bustard, and the pin-tailed sandgrouse, the ceca are sacculated or have diverticula.
(12) The whole work is crammed and crowded with the Dadd mixture of intricate plant life and small figures on all scales – a miniature bacchanal with satyrs, and a dead deer on a pole that rushes along above Titania's head.
(13) The proband shows the full spectrum of anomalies, including imperforate anus, prominent perineal raphe, rectoperineal fistula, triphalangeal thumb, preaxial hexadactyly, syndactyly, clinodactyly, preauricular protuberances, hypoplastic satyr ears, sensorineural hearing loss and urorenal anomalies.