Orphic

In connection with one of his legends, the myth of Dionysus Zagreus, we find traces of an esoteric doctrine, taught by what were known as the orphic sects, very curiously opposed, one would have said, to the general trend of Greek conceptions. ❋ Unknown (1897)

During that same time in art history, however, you had the impressionists, the post-impressionists, the cubists, the orphic (abstract) cubists, the abstract branch of the surrealists, the abstract expressionists, the color-field painters, the minimalists and the beginnings of the postminimalists and conceptual art. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The analogy of the corpse thus depicts the resistance to understanding — the backwardness — of the orphic measure and of things prior to the ❋ Unknown (2003)

Greek lyric poetry lost much of its orphic electricity as Hellenic civilization evolved, and not simply for want of fresh Sapphos. ❋ Unknown (1998)

The relative silence was interrupted by plaintive, orphic sounds of a flute played by a uniformed high school student who sat stiffly on the steps leading into the monument. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

In many ways it besot him like orphic sound to a musician, or the tenebrisms of artists (Carvaggios like himself); but nonetheless he continued to project blame at the bearded anathema beneath him, and he still glanced down periodically at the floor hoping to find the putative agents of the odor, evidence to bolster his bilious conclusions, being in full denial of himself. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

He wanted to introduce if not explain something so ineffable and orphic to which a mortal could only awkwardly utter that inadequate word, ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Amber failed to educe from him any satisfactory explanation of this orphic utterance. ❋ Louis Joseph Vance (1906)

Here, in the tenets of these orphic sects, we have the doctrine of "original sin," the conception of life as a struggle between two opposing principles, and the promise of an ultimate redemption by the help of the divine power. ❋ Unknown (1897)

These are the oracles and orphic words that get lodged in the mind and bend a man's most stubborn will. ❋ John Jay Chapman (1897)

"Starving will kill as dead as hanging," was Lieders's orphic response to this. ❋ Unknown (1893)

Thus do we see that the orphic habit was already beginning to germinate. ❋ Elbert Hubbard (1885)

Erasmus supply General Tecumseh Sherman the germ of a famous orphic. ❋ Elbert Hubbard (1885)

Once a lady took him for a carriage ride, and on learning from the footman that they were seven miles from home he was so displeased that he refused to utter a single orphic on the way back; and further, the story is that he never after entered a vehicle, and living for thirty years was never again so far from the lodging he called home. ❋ Elbert Hubbard (1885)

John Brown type, a John Brown ideal, a John Brown principle, which we were somehow (with long pauses between the vague, orphic phrases) to cherish, and to nourish ourselves upon. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)

The most ardent of their votaries must flush in generous deprecation when those orphic inquiries flow from lips quite as divine as their own. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)

Mr. Alcott built terraces and arbors and pavilions of boughs and rough stems of trees, revealing -- somewhat inadequately, perhaps -- the hanging gardens of delight that adorn the Babylon of his orphic imagination. ❋ George William Curtis (1858)

In orphic language and with copybook maxims, they all attempt the peculiarly American feat of relating the arcane and the infinite with dollar-&-cents success. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I [find] [the universe] to be [quite] orphic. ❋ Harmony B (2014)

My [choice] of [music] is very orphic ❋ Hitasha2302 (2023)

[wow] she’s such an [orphice]! ❋ Urbandictionary124689 (2018)

[Do not] [reverse] snoopdog Martha's orphices ❋ 14534 (2021)

e.g: 'In [orphicism], The Greek God of The Universe, Protogenus (aka. Phanes) created the primordial gods and the universe. The Greek god of love, [Eros] (Roman: Cupid) also hatched from the Cosmic egg floating in The Cosmos.' (NOTE: A follower of [Orphicism] would be called an, [Orphic] or Orphicist). ❋ Diana_Lucius_De_Collis (2023)