Ozymandian

comparative more Ozymandian · superlative most Ozymandian

1. Suggesting or pertaining to Shelley's Ozymandias, a proud king whose empire and memory have long since crumbled into obscurity.

   Delhi is littered with the Ozymandian debris of empires.

   2013, James Astill, The Great Tamasha

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   Travelers in the antique land of the genre fable will find themselves confronted not perhaps by a wreck of Ozymandian proportions, but still with a sizable selection of rubble.

   2002, Niklas Holzberg, The Ancient Fable: An Introduction, page 1