Meaning of Olympianesque | Babel Free

Definitions

Characteristic of the Olympic Games or Olympians.

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Examples

“Among those bypassing Seattle were athletes of Olympianesque stature such as Steve Prefontaine, Jim Ryun, George Woods, Al Feuerbach, Dr. Delano Meriwether, Bob Seagren, John Smith, Larry Burton, Wayne Collett, George Frenn. They’ll add to the heat in the kitchen at Eugene.”

““Most of us,” Schultz rightly notes, “are much more acquainted with losing than we are with winning” (Jubilee 12). And so the Olympianesque message encoded in Charlie Brown’s athletic tribulations is that while life may well be futile and defeat inevitable […]”

“For instance, the protruding marquee marking the entrance to the Disney store serves as the stage for this odd pastiche: an Olympianesque torch of gigantic proportions, a Pegasus with wings ready for flight, seeming to draw behind it in a little chariot Minnie and Mickey, who wave out to the mall, like touring royalty.”

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