ouroborosian

comparative more ouroborosian · superlative most ouroborosian

1. Alternative letter-case form of Ouroborosian.

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   And all of it eminently disposable, fated to be consumed and retweeted and referred to for a few hours then forgotten, like veerything else passing through the self-devouring gullet of the ouroborosian media Leviathan we live within, picked up and dropped as we keep searching for newer confirmations of our half-articulated hopes and fears, more recent pictures to prove to us our world makes sense, fresher flags to wave[…]

   2018 July 17, Roy Scranton, We're Doomed. Now What?: Essays on War and Climate Change, Soho Press, →ISBN, page 305

   However, if one looks up the word histoire, one discovered one of the synonyms is, naturally, conte. So, this relationship between stories and tales is somehow related to the notion of history, which is related to story, which is related to conte. Very ouroborosian. So, what can be made of the title itself? How can one define story? In his Aspects of the Novel, Forster does a somewhat questionable job of avoiding a definition of what a story is other than to say the novel has to have[…]

   2021 January 20, Mark Axelrod-Sokolov, Untheories of Fiction: Literary Essays from Diderot to Markson, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 30

comparative more Ouroborosian · superlative most Ouroborosian

1. Synonym of ouroboric.

   '30 Rock' is the latest and greatest Ouroborosian comedy - the satirical snake that eats its own economic tail. Just as Monty Python mocked the BBC and The Simpsons satirized Fox, 30 Rock has a perverse, nearly sadomasochistic relationship with its corporate [owners].

   2009 10, New York

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   In fact, in Dr. Manhattan's assertion that he has become so interested in human beings that he thinks he will go create some, Moore implies an Ouroborosian view of the cosmos. Because he is a man who becomes a god who creates men who presumably repeat the process, Dr. Manhattan can be read as a version of Ouroboros, the serpent who swallows its own tail.

   2008, Elizabeth K. Rosen, Apocalyptic Transformation: Apocalypse and the Postmodern Imagination, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 37

   The unwillingness of the rich guy to take advantage of being a rich guy for fear of looking like a rich guy was a chain of logic too Ouroborosian to ponder for too long. The Boston brain trust had come up with a potential alternative: using forthcoming general election funds as collateral for a $20 million line of credit. But there were campaign finance hoops to jump[…]

   2013 November 5, Mark Halperin, John Heilemann, Double Down: Game Change 2012, Penguin, →ISBN

   Synonyms: ouroboric