Furies

Word FURIES
Character 6
Hyphenation fu ries
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Furies"

What do we mean by furies?

Extreme anger.

Strength or violence in action.

An angry or malignant person.

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The word "furies" in example sentences

Provok'd to vengeance, to my aid I call The furies round, and dip my pens in gall j Not one fliail * fcapc of all the cozening fex, ❋ Unknown (1779)

It is without doubt upon the principle that the Greeks called the furies Eumenides, “good hearts.” ❋ Unknown (2007)

The Codex Alera is a fantasy series set within the savage world of Carna, where spirits of the elements, known as furies, lurk in every facet of life, and where many intelligent races vie for security and survival. ❋ Butcher, Jim (2005)

He really develops the idea that conscience denied is what leads us further into the wilderness; that the "furies" of conscience drive us to break more and more with the "law written our hearts". ❋ Unknown (2005)

The economic world as we know it may be ending, but the left can't summon the kind of furies that got us into Iraq, declared gay marriage its buzzword name. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Daniel Mendelsohn does a good job of teasing out the implications of this strategy in his review of The Kindly Ones (the title being a direct reference to the "furies" of Aeschylus's play, who are transformed at the end of the play into "kindly ones"), and while I agree with Mendelsohn that Littell employs the strategy skillfully, I can't agree that the problem it causes is that, in portraying Aue as "a sex-crazed, incestuous, homosexual, matricidal coprophage," it works against the historical portrayal of Aue as a "human brother." ❋ Unknown (2010)

Instead of “being softened to concord "[91] “by that temperate simplicity of doctrine, he seized upon the very name of agreement as a kind of furies’ torch to rekindle the flame” — a flame which continued to burn in the Lutheran Church till it ate all the heart of Christian life out of it, and which, by the antagonistic spirit. it provoked, became a source of weakness and disgrace to the ❋ 1823-1886 (1883)

Living in Iran until she was 18, Ilchi knows the cultural furies that exist within society and her own psyche. ❋ Tracey Harnish (2011)

I had begun my abjuration with solemnity, and an awe which almost assured me that the shades of my murdered friends heard and approved my devotion; but the furies possessed me as I concluded, and rage choked my utterance. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This is the cocoon for three lifesize papier mache goddesses or are they furies? with multiple heads and hair for eyes. ❋ Emma Crichton-Miller (2011)

His advisers say he doesn't favor a 25% tariff on Chinese goods as some in Congress do, but once a President unleashes protectionist furies they are hard to contain. ❋ Unknown (2011)

He was in the Gaza Strip, where terrorist furies make no exceptions for Western fellow travelers. ❋ Unknown (2011)

He had been a cruel and effective cop on the banks of the Nile, but the furies repressed in Egypt had come America's way. ❋ Fouad Ajami (2011)

And down the street from their house, she sees the man who murdered her, still undetected, still seething with pedophile furies. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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