How To Use Bacchanalia In A Sentence
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But in that typically unabashed and upfront Californian way - though she was actually born in Phoenix, Arizona - she refuses to be coy about the band's bacchanalian excesses.
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I resorted to telemarketing to pay for my bacchanalian lifestyle during the lean years of college.
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I had, somehow, got both lords and deans associated in my mind with infinite swillings of port wine, and bacchanalian orgies, and sat down at first, in much fear and trembling, lest I should be compelled to join, under penalties of salt-and-water; but
Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography
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The answer, of course, lies in a word unfamiliar to as many fitness enthusiasts as it is to the bacchanalian hedonist - moderation.
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He says he ‘never took a drug in my life ‘, although he retains a theoretical fascination for rock'n'roll bacchanalia.
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The heart and soul of the movie is Alan, a shy Texan teetotaller who's confronted with a display of bacchanalian excess that would've impressed Caligula.
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It's a conceit that would ring false with David Threlfall's wild, bacchanalian Chatsworth patriarch but William H Macy's Frank is a more sensitive, caring soul, who uses his extended period of sobriety to connect with the kids.
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In Roman times, a Bacchanalia was basically a very drunken orgy paying homage to the god of wine.
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A country so rich in frescoes and carvings of bacchanalian festivities must know a thing or two about making wine.
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The thyrsus was a long staff, carried by Bacchus, and by the Satyrs and Bacchanalians engaged in the worship of the God of the grape.
The Metamorphoses of Ovid Vol. I, Books I-VII
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In other days there were festal dances, and funeral dances, and military dances, and "mediatorial" dances, and bacchanalian dances.
The Abominations of Modern Society
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Luckily enough, most of Scotland was spared shameful scenes of bacchanalian excess.
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The name J'ouvert originates from the French jour ouvert, meaning day break or morning, and signals the start of the bacchanalia that is Carnival.
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Elton John was having his annual Oscar-time birthday bacchanalia at a private room in the Beverly Hills Hotel.
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From Tmolus, the sacred mound, comes the exotic god of Bacchanalia with we disciples gathered round!
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Next weekend the capital will be overrun by television types, in town for their weekend bacchanalia.
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In between two circumnavigations of the globe he bought the best vineyards in the village and founded La Paulée de Meursault, the bacchanalian postharvest feast that survives to this day.
A Place of Great Whites Confronts a Dark Mystery
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He turned a few more pages and saw a pic of him and Emily which was taken at the Bacchanalia.
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True, the book is subtle and extremely restrained, compared to writers' coming-of-age bacchanalian classics like On the Road.
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In between two circumnavigations of the globe he bought the best vineyards in the village and founded La Paulée de Meursault, the bacchanalian postharvest feast that survives to this day.
A Place of Great Whites Confronts a Dark Mystery
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It was, from the benefit of my desk in Scotland, something of a Bacchanalia, but boy was it fun.
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An orgy in cans and bottles, a bacchanalian revel: a cupboard full of indigestion, joy, forgetfulness and katzenjammer.
Where there's a Will
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Rampant bacchanalia may be what actually promotes his night owl tendencies.
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But over the years, as he gravitated more toward the bacchanalia of New York's art crowd, he found that his guerilla filmmaking had become ‘hip.’
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Wine slopped from the urns he held in each hand as he shouted from the bottom of his lungs, ‘Let the Bacchanalia begin!’
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The whirlwind velocity with which the larger combines recombine and split, enter and break off engagements, couple, reproduce offspring, contrive advantageous liaisons between progeny and distant cousins, and otherwise besport themselves in what sometimes seems like a corporate bacchanalia, has made it difficult for us to keep pace with all of it long enough to get it down on paper.
Travels in Medialand
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Inspired by our collective thirst for art and bacchanalia, the first of these parties, ‘Yo, Bum Rush the Show’ was a wild success.
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But Daytona Beach's bacchanalian atmosphere is part of the allure for domestic missionaries -- it's what's called "battleground evangelism.
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You'll also check out archaeological digs at ancient sites, see fresh mozzarella di bufala stretched by hand, and end the days with bacchanalian feasts and luxe rooms in cliff-perched palaces.
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Reacting against Bacchanalian rites and orgies, they aimed at purifying the soul.
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Val Kilmer plays the fallen porn idol as a stoned, hairy, white-trash Jim Morrison, stumbling in a haze through the treacheries of LA's barely hidden bacchanalian rot.
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The murals, not badly done, depicted Bacchanalian orgies from various eras of history.
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One of the reasons Hollywood has always liked sword-and-sandal epics is that it has vainly seen itself in the lascivious, bacchanalian lifestyle of the rich and Roman.
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Since medieval times their annual fair was famous not only for its heights of bacchanalian revelry but also for the ferocious brawls that would inevitably break out.
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I was greatly relieved to learn, on arriving in the village of Kaibola, that I had missed the annual bacchanalia by a good few weeks.
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At a bacchanalian soiree thrown by students from Johns Hopkins University, for example, Kate nursed one glass of wine the entire evening.
William and Kate
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All around her, bacchanalia were in full flow, men and women of all ages punching the air and shouting ‘Don't Stop Me’ as the Friday night binge began its headlong rush into the early hours.
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To see the symbols of violence - yellow barricades, barrels, armed guards, Police jeeps and sniffer dogs - intermingled with the bacchanalia is a strange juxtaposition for us used to a different atmosphere.
Kottu
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It was a constant practice with them, in their midnight consistories, to swallow such plentiful draughts of inspiration, that their mysteries commonly ended like those of the Bacchanalian orgia; and they were seldom capable of maintaining that solemnity of decorum which, by the nature of their functions, most of them were obliged to profess.
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
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Spring break rarely passes without a few nose-held news accounts of the bacchanalia.
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Not only has the show reached its 15th anniversary but tonight also brings the return of the annual jamboree Hollyoaks Later, during which Hollyoaks gets to pretend it is Skins: showing flesh, gleefully swearing and generally revelling in the bacchanalian Arcadia that is post-watershed E4.
The post-watershed wonder of Hollyoaks Later is worth celebrating
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Russia players accused of 'bacchanalia' before World Cup qualifiers
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The orgies and bacchanalia all exist elsewhere.
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Not that my life has been a wild bacchanalian phantasmagoria of debauchery and dissipation, but I've had my moments.
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He was mainly active in Rome, where he arrived c. 1625-8 and became the leader of the Schildersbent, a bacchanalian fraternity of Netherlandish artists living in the city.
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So, having imbibed too much at the previous night's wild Bacchanalia, what is the prescription which should now be followed in order to relieve the distress of this thunderous hangover most swiftly?
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This did not mean living life as one long Bacchanalia.
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I had the intense good fortune - or the abject misfortune, depending on your point of view - to come of age in Manchester in 1988, a time that was bookmarked by the lawless, reckless and thoroughly groovy bacchanalia of acid house.
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20-25 is really the only time you'll have for Bacchanalian orgiastic sex of the highest caliber.
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Earlier, Voronin had demanded an end to what he called the "bacchanalia" of protests.
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There is nothing wild or bacchanalian to report.
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_Asti spumante_ poured out for him, instead of milk, by these bacchanalian
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Harriman was also reckless, disregarding a doctor-ordered ban on drinking, often dropping the cost of a college education on a single evening of bacchanalia.
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This weekend was not quite the bacchanalia of the one prior, but there were some late nights nevertheless.
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Earlier, Voronin had demanded an end to what he called the "bacchanalia" of protests, saying: "Challenging the results of the election is no more than a pretext.
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Thursday is payday, Friday is escape, Saturday offers brief bacchanalia and Sunday is for rest and regrets.
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Viticulturally speaking, a floating college kegger may not qualify as Bacchanalia.
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a night of bacchanalian revelry
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I remember being 17 and being caught by my father puking up in the loo after a particularly bacchanalian dinner party.
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Not that my life has been a wild bacchanalian phantasmagoria of debauchery and dissipation, but I've had my moments.
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Despite the presence of bacchantes and the references to wine, the bacchanalian aspect of the scene is greatly subdued, reducing the feeling of revelry and recklessness.
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Their pale sun-gilt green set a glow of bacchanalianism about the weather-worn heads of the old orchard giants.
La faute de l'Abbe Mouret
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But in appearance he still ruled, dozing oft-times at the board, a bacchanalian ruin, yet in all seeming the ruler of the feast.
The Wit of Porportuk
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The Bacchanalia and the Liberalia were related religious festivals in ancient Rome, in honor of Bacchus.
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In between reports from CNN of Paris Hilton's impending subtopian incarceration (in a section of Los Angeles 'Century Regional Detention Center reserved for celebrities, public officials, police officers and other high-profile inmates, in a cell shared with a “reckless driver”) ‚ and Lindsay Lohan's upcoming 21st birthday bacchanalia (in Las Vegas, right after spending 30 days at the celebrity architecture du jour — the rehab center), we heard reports of the jet-set TB-infected Atlanta lawyer quarantined in Denver (an accidental celebrity in a rehab center of a different kind, as it were), flown there yesterday with an escort of federal marshals.
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A rare and ancient wine bowl depicting bacchanalian scenes of naked men and women has emerged.
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She wanders into an idyllic glen, where a kind of bacchanalia is taking place.
Creative Loafing Atlanta
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The $500,000 afterparty, held in a club specially constructed backstage at Wembley just for the night, was a bacchanalian eyeful that featured acrobats swinging overhead and nearly naked dancers gyrating in cages.
William and Kate
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After one too many bacchanalian orgies, Timon realizes that he's squandered his entire fortune and turns to his many friends for financial support.
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A bottle was opened, and the minister pledged the bride, and the bridesmaids simpered and tasted, and I made a speech with airy bacchanalianism, glass in hand.
The Wrecker
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But what have I, a continuing PhD, done to deserve to join in the debauched bacchanalian revelry of undergrads?
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At this time, pepper and spices made their entrance, along with meat-eating, Bacchanalian orgies, gluttony, vomitoriums and the gladiatorial displays of cruelty.
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The Bacchanalia got so out of hand that they were forbidden by the Roman Senate in 186 BCE.
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What, mused Jean-Pierre, had happened to the bacchanalian orgy we feared and hoped for?
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Semblably Titus Livius writeth that, in the solemnization time of the Bacchanalian holidays at Rome, both men and women seemed to prophetize and vaticinate, because of an affected kind of wagging of the head, shrugging of the shoulders, and jectigation of the whole body, which they used then most punctually.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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You'll also check out archaeological digs at ancient sites, see fresh mozzarella di bufala stretched by hand, and end the days with bacchanalian feasts and luxe rooms in cliff-perched palaces.
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He was referring to the Bacchanalia, Roman religious festivals honoring the wine god, Bacchus.
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That, of course, made us the perfect roommates, and together we launched ourselves into the bacchanalia that was New York in the 1970s.
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It kind of reminds me of the underlying significance of the bacchanalian frivolity of Carnival back home.
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The guzzlers of Munich's beer halls are the stuff of bacchanalian legend: now they have to contend with rivals hailing from the bars and street stalls of Hanoi and New Delhi.
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The life of a supermodel often conjures images of diva designers, bacchanalian parties and jet-set extravagance.
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Bacchanalia, plura virorum inter sese quam fœminarum stupra.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The gaudy, bacchanalian atmosphere of the late Nineties coincided with the biggest boom in Wall Street's history and, after the collapse of various high-profile stocks, people seemed to sober up a bit.
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At night you could hear these wild Irish in their Bacchanalian revels fighting, singing, dancing, &c., all hours of the night.
A Renegade History of the United States
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The Bacchanalia takes place to the soundtrack of hate-fuelled gangsta rap. • How does this conservative look forward to a new Tom Wolfe novel?
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Naturally, such bacchanalian and sybaritic efforts resulted in rock n' roll suicides -- so to speak -- indigenous to the region, such as the deaths of Jimi Hendrix and Steve Took of '70s glam duo T.
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He turned a few more pages and saw a pic of him and Emily which was taken at the Bacchanalia.
