Edward P. Jones

I have said with as much sincerity as I can muster that if I were thrown into a dungeon with a sentence of one hundred years, with my only company being an illiterate guard who came twice a day with meals but who never spoke, I would still write - on coarse toilet paper in the dark if I could spare it.

American Novelist

Benjamin Percy

I travel often, so my routine is always getting scrambled. But on a standard sort of day, I get up at 6, pack lunches, hustle the kids off to school, then brew a pot of coffee and head downstairs to the dungeon, as I call it: my cobwebby office in the basement.

Leonard Cohen

We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons so it's very hard for me to place any high value on the work that I do to write a song. Yeah, I work hard but compared to what?

Canadian Singer

John Milton

He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon.

English Poet

Michel de Montaigne

Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.

French Philosopher

Rob Manuel

Borderlands' came out of nowhere to appease the gnawing hunger left behind with the dearth of quality dungeon crawlers on the market.

Businessman

Shaggy

I prefer working with artists who are prepared to get down in the dungeons and get the job done.

Jamaican Musician

Robert Fisk

In one way, I fear all Damascus is a dungeon. Or do you have to live here to appreciate that?

British Journalist

Gary Gygax

Role-playing isn't storytelling. If the dungeon master is directing it, it's not a game.

American Inventor

David Benioff

I was a huge fantasy geek growing up. I was the dungeon master in my D&D game.

Originally, dungeons were the strongholds of castles where prisoners were kept.

Historical Origin

Dungeons evoke feelings of fear and captivity, often used in horror contexts.

Negative Connotation

People can use 'dungeon' metaphorically to describe any uncomfortable, confining space.

Not Always Literal

In games, a dungeon is a level designed with challenges, puzzles, and enemies.

Gaming Challenge

Dungeons in gaming often suggest adventure, treasure hunting, and exploration.

Adventure Setting

In gaming, dungeons are usually set in fantasy worlds with magical creatures.

Fantasy Context

 and obviously that's wrongheaded. How do psychologists try to understand such transformations of human character, if you believe that they were good soldiers before they went down to that dungeon? There are three ways. The main way is called dispositional. We look at what's inside of the person, the bad apples. This is the foundation of all of social science,

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 nizar uh being stuck in a raging river in our field vehicle with water coming in through the doors at night uh dungeon what about you um jeez well we had a field site that was on top of this like just huge tower of rock that took forever to climb up and so we were stuck up there is this little

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 In this dystopian world, your resistance group is humanity's last hope. Unfortunately, you've all been captured by the tyrannical rulers and brought to the ancient colosseum for their deadly entertainment. Before you're thrown into the dungeon,

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 elements in an air conditioning system of a near perfect mansion that has start walls to protect its inhabitants from the elements and from their enemies deep dungeons where they can gather moisture space inside for barns where they can

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 the Iron Lady the Iron Lady in a dungeon ironing etc so the other thing my other big claim to fame is that I invented the messy window the disgusting messy window full of cigarette butts it's such a et cetera running out of time so your

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 The bad news is that he's not quite as generous about letting you leave the dungeon, unless you solve his puzzle. The task sounds simple enough. Both faces of each coin bear the fearsome scorpion crest, one in silver,

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 epidemics of plague or typhus or leprosy, where the prevalent ideas were that there were bad people or bad humors or bad air, and widows were dragged around the moat, and dungeons were part of the solution.

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 When their work was done, they sought out new worlds, but left the source of their power three powerful golden hexagons, hidden within dungeons full of traps and monsters.

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 Denis Diderot left a dungeon outside Paris on November 3, 1749. He'd had his writing burned in public before, but this time, he'd gotten locked up under royal order

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 You're the realm's greatest mathematician, but ever since you criticized the Emperor's tax laws, you've been locked in the dungeon

Dungeon

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Negative Connotation

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