What is "dantesque"

Usage examples of "dantesque".

There is no reason to believe he knows anything at all of the Dantesque nature of these crimes or that he knows about our translation project.

I introduced some Dantesque descriptions during my sermon and judged their effect rather successful.

Teal dresses in his uniform when involved in his Dantesque mode, whether he is studying Dante or preparing his murders.

Sno-cone vendors hawking through the crowd, police with sweat stains in the pits and front of shirts, Tachyon like a tiny redheaded, red-clad devil in the midst of a Dantesque scene as jokers doubled for demons.

On either side rose cliffs of darkness, and beneath, like sheets of cold moonlight, flowed the Genesee, a Dantesque effect of jet and silver, Stygian in its intensity and indescribably mournful.

Illumination was weaker here than higher up, adding further to the Dantesque aura of his new surroundings.

Besides, the Dantesque agony of twisted rock landscape, plus the near-intolerable heat outside the Colony Bubble, precluded coherent thought.

It is most astonishing, giving not only the literal corresponding phrase, but the spirit of the original, the true Dantesque manner.

But has he preserved it in its force and simplicity and Dantesque directness?

Then he caught her up in his arms and ran with her, the shadows of the trees and the undergrowth clutching at him like mocking shapes in a Dantesque vision of the nether world.