as in chthonian
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My favorite of all is Peter Stormare as Lucifer himself, floating down in a white suit and bare feet covered in tar like some infernal version of a southern roué whose eyebrows were seared off by the flames of hell.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
4 Mar. 2025 -
The wildfires scorching Southern California are turning entire neighborhoods into ash, decimating expensive properties and exacerbating an insurance crisis that predates the infernal blazes.—
Sharon Udasin,
The Hill,
16 Jan. 2025
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That’s because the Greeks distinguished between Olympian gods, who lived on Mt. Olympus, and chthonic gods, who lived in the underworld.—
Cody Cottier,
Discover Magazine,
20 Jan. 2025
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But Lloyd is less interested in the specifics of either work than in the chthonic rage underneath.—
Helen Shaw,
The New Yorker,
25 Oct. 2024
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But its counterpart, which treats the battle from the perspective of the Japanese forces, is even more remarkable, capturing the hellish conditions in which the soldiers fought and the unforgiving ideology that brought them to the battlefield in the first place.—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
3 Mar. 2025
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Inch-high avatars stand to scale in lush 3D sets of magical forests, hellish underworlds, even high schools.—
Eric Francisco,
Rolling Stone,
1 Mar. 2025
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“Tartarean.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Tartarean. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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