Olympianesque

English Etymology From en Olympian -esque. Adjective en rare Characteristic of the Olympic Games or Olympians. en 1972-06-20 Jerry Nason Fredericks shows kick, must in Olympic 10,000 Tuesday Track Talk w:The Boston Evening Globe 201 172 Boston, Mass. Globe Newspaper Co. 30 Among those bypassing Seattle were athletes of Olympianesque stature such as Steve Prefontaine, Jim Ryun, George Woods (shot putter) George Woods, Al Feuerbach, Dr. Delano Meriwether, Bob Seagren, John Smith (sprinter) John Smith, Larry Burton, Wayne Collett, George Frenn. They’ll add to the heat in the kitchen at Eugene. en 2004 Spring Jeffrey O. Segrave Sport and the Development of Character In Charles Schultz’s Peanuts Aethlon 21 2 41 https://books.google.com/books?id=3s4rAQAAIAAJ&q=Olympianesque “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 en 2012 Robots, gods and greed: The theatrum mundi in the Forum Shops at Caesar’s Palace 2 10.4324/9780203449042-9 Maurya Wickstrom Performing Consumers: Global Capital and its Theatrical Seductions London w:Routledge 9781134301034 unnumbered https://books.google.hu/books?id=CM1_AgAAQBAJ&pg=PT67&dq=Olympianesque 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.