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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.
  • 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.
  • I resorted to telemarketing to pay for my bacchanalian lifestyle during the lean years of college.
  • Associated Press In the centuries after the Reformation, some Protestants, notably the Puritans in England, sought to ban Christmas celebrations as pagan bacchanals, which they often were. No Church This Sunday—It's Christmas
  • 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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  • He says he ‘never took a drug in my life ‘, although he retains a theoretical fascination for rock'n'roll bacchanalia.
  • 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.
  • Many of the details in the Triumph are paraphrastic repetitions from Titian's three Bacchanals.
  • 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. TV highlights 11/08/2011: The Culture Show At The Edinburgh Festival | Torchwood: Miracle Day | The Killing | The Forgotten Blitz | Little Box Of Horrors | Shameless US
  • In Roman times, a Bacchanalia was basically a very drunken orgy paying homage to the god of wine.
  • A country so rich in frescoes and carvings of bacchanalian festivities must know a thing or two about making wine.
  • But they, not sure of the voice they heard, sprang up and peered all round; then once again his bidding came; and when the daughters of Cadmus knew it was the Bacchic god in very truth that called, swift as doves they dirted off in cager haste, his mother Agave and her sisters dear and all the Bacchanals; through torrent glen, o'er boulders huge they bounded on, inspired with madness by the god. The Bacchantes
  • 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
  • In other days there were festal dances, and funeral dances, and military dances, and "mediatorial" dances, and bacchanalian dances. The Abominations of Modern Society
  • Luckily enough, most of Scotland was spared shameful scenes of bacchanalian excess.
  • Perhaps he may, when thou standest amid thy Bacchanals and callest on his name. The Bacchantes
  • 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. TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
  • What did shock me was that the hip-hop press, perhaps in a guilty, knee-jerk response to the bacchanal hip-hop that essentially gave rise to the genre in the first place, chose to ride along.
  • Little Malcolm won the Silver Bear at Berlin in 1974 Cooper's next movie, the sombre and chastening Overlord, won another Silver Bear in 1975, and the post-ceremonial bacchanals were memorable indeed. Eunarchy in the UK: George Harrison's first movie
  • Elton John was having his annual Oscar-time birthday bacchanalia at a private room in the Beverly Hills Hotel. Phil Bronstein: Elizabeth Taylor's Passion
  • From Tmolus, the sacred mound, comes the exotic god of Bacchanalia with we disciples gathered round!
  • Next weekend the capital will be overrun by television types, in town for their weekend bacchanalia.
  • 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
  • He turned a few more pages and saw a pic of him and Emily which was taken at the Bacchanalia.
  • The party finishes on Ash Wednesday, and J'Ouvert on the preceding Thursday night signals the beginning of the real, hard-core bacchanal.
  • True, the book is subtle and extremely restrained, compared to writers' coming-of-age bacchanalian classics like On the Road.
  • With the proceeds of a very remunerative silent film in which he choreographed and danced a bacchanal scene, he re-channeled his life into a decade of travel and painting.
  • 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
  • The handling of scale is masterly: a lovers 'chase can expand into a ferocious group bacchanale in a second; a stageful of violent emotion can be dissipated with a single dancer's shrug. Pina Bausch's Tanztheater Wuppertal: Agua
  • Through her eyes we observe the absurdities of co-ed dorms and toilets, drunken frat bacchanals, and violent tailgate parties.
  • It was, from the benefit of my desk in Scotland, something of a Bacchanalia, but boy was it fun.
  • An orgy in cans and bottles, a bacchanalian revel: a cupboard full of indigestion, joy, forgetfulness and katzenjammer. Where there's a Will
  • Rampant bacchanalia may be what actually promotes his night owl tendencies.
  • 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.’
  • Wine slopped from the urns he held in each hand as he shouted from the bottom of his lungs, ‘Let the Bacchanalia begin!’
  • It's about a king who literally gets eaten alive by all the women in the play in a kind of orgy-it's related to the word 'bacchanal'-and I loved that idea of animalistic chaos and following our own desires. Gayired.com - Gay OnLine Community for Entertainment and Daily News
  • 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
  • Right Bed, Wrong Husband is a production which assures steady laughs, from beginning to end, spiced with the bacchanal elements that local audiences love so well.
  • A reader sends along a copy of a breathless invitation that he received from Matthew Stadler, a Randy Gragg comrade in pretention and tortured artist-type gay author who puts together "presentations/symposia/bacchanals in Portland, Oregon, replete with food, drink, music, and general boisterousness garlanding the central pleasure of bright intellects voicing their excellent texts, winging it in conversation, and screening or presenting various textual and visual delights. Creep Suzette (Jack Bog's Blog)
  • Inspired by our collective thirst for art and bacchanalia, the first of these parties, ‘Yo, Bum Rush the Show’ was a wild success.
  • But Daytona Beach's bacchanalian atmosphere is part of the allure for domestic missionaries -- it's what's called "battleground evangelism. Where Would Jesus Spend Spring Break?
  • It's the orgy, the bacchanal, that is to still the lamentations of the poor! An Eagle Flight A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere
  • 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.
  • Reacting against Bacchanalian rites and orgies, they aimed at purifying the soul.
  • 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.
  • The murals, not badly done, depicted Bacchanalian orgies from various eras of history.
  • 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.
  • As African-descended (including Indo- and Euro-Caribbean) peoples bring their cultures to urban spaces which are heavily policed, bordered, and confined, some interesting frictions emerge when the people break down fences (which occurred at Caribana) to join floats and dance behind enormous trucks with their booming sound systems, insisting on the politics of "bacchanal" (anything goes) and "chaos theory" while resisting the orderly ways of the state. Archive 2007-08-01
  • Hassan can, at a handclap, call a vassal at hand and ask that all staff plan a bacchanal - a gala ball that has what pagan charm small galas lack. The Unreasonable Man
  • The Florentine painter Giovan Battista Vanni was paid 200 scudi for his copy of the Bacchanal of the Andrians.
  • A Hangover-style bacchanal, complete with zoo animals? Una LaMarche: Project Runway Episode 12 Recap: Empire State of Meh
  • We'll get out my guitar and serenade her and spend bacchanal evenings under the Navajo moon. THE JOE LEAPHORN MYSTERIES
  • That year Chang opened Momofuku Ssäm Bar, a hot spot known for its enormous pork-butt bacchanals, and in 2008 came Momofuku Ko, his 12-seat bid at Michelin stardom. The Chef and the Critic
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • As we now know, thanks to his current trial on charges of paying for sex with a minor, he regularly assembles veritable harems of young women for bacchanals with a dress code that could be described as whimsical. NYT > Home Page
  • 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
  • Spring break rarely passes without a few nose-held news accounts of the bacchanalia.
  • 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
  • Russia players accused of 'bacchanalia' before World Cup qualifiers WN.com - Articles related to Slovenians in mass protest over wages, retirement
  • The orgies and bacchanalia all exist elsewhere.
  • Not that my life has been a wild bacchanalian phantasmagoria of debauchery and dissipation, but I've had my moments.
  • 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.
  • 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?
  • This did not mean living life as one long Bacchanalia.
  • 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.
  • 20-25 is really the only time you'll have for Bacchanalian orgiastic sex of the highest caliber.
  • Earlier, Voronin had demanded an end to what he called the "bacchanalia" of protests. AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE)
  • There is nothing wild or bacchanalian to report.
  • And gabachos have warped our precious St. Patrick's Day and Cinco de Mayo holidays into bacchanals of booze and women--on second thought, that's a compliment. Gustavo Arellano: ¡ASK A MEXICAN! Special Mexicans are Racist Edición
  • _Asti spumante_ poured out for him, instead of milk, by these bacchanalian Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House
  • 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.
  • This weekend was not quite the bacchanalia of the one prior, but there were some late nights nevertheless.
  • 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. Top Stories - Google News
  • Thursday is payday, Friday is escape, Saturday offers brief bacchanalia and Sunday is for rest and regrets.
  • Viticulturally speaking, a floating college kegger may not qualify as Bacchanalia.
  • Bacchanals is this, that the women of the chorus, staid and temperate for the moment, following Dionysus in his alternations, are but the paler sisters of his more wild and gloomy votaries -- the true followers of the mystical Dionysus -- the real chorus of Zagreus; the idea that their [77] violent proceedings are the result of madness only, sent on them as a punishment for their original rejection of the god, being, as I said, when seen from the deeper motives of the myth, only a "sophism" of Euripides -- a piece of rationalism of which he avails himself for the purpose of softening down the tradition of which he has undertaken to be the poet. Greek Studies: a Series of Essays
  • His quest for an unparalleled bacchanal takes him to Tokyo and then Berlin, where he helps organize a banquet giant panda paw and white tiger cub are on the menu in what was Hitler's underground bunker. Art's Power to Humiliate and to Heal
  • a night of bacchanalian revelry
  • Those amorous nations were consistent; with them all was God, even Fear and its dastardy, even crime and its bacchanals. Seraphita
  • I remember being 17 and being caught by my father puking up in the loo after a particularly bacchanalian dinner party.
  • Not that my life has been a wild bacchanalian phantasmagoria of debauchery and dissipation, but I've had my moments.
  • The giant water bug, or Lethocerus indicus, a three-inch-long South Asian insect that looks uncannily like a local cockroach, is just one of the items on the menu of this bug-eating bacchanal.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • For this disorderly, wandering march, besides the drinking part of it, was accompanied with all the sportiveness and insolence of bacchanals, as much as if the god himself had been there to countenance and lead the procession. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
  • 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
  • The movie tells the story of two middle-aged pals, Miles and Jack, attempting one last bachelor bacchanal before Jack gets married.
  • The Bacchanalia and the Liberalia were related religious festivals in ancient Rome, in honor of Bacchus.
  • La Paulée had many satellite events, seminars, tastings and even an auction, but the big event was the Saturday night dinner, a bacchanal the likes of which my liver hopes not to experience again for at least another week or two. Burgundy: When It's Good, It's Very, Very Good...
  • 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. Air TB
  • A rare and ancient wine bowl depicting bacchanalian scenes of naked men and women has emerged.
  • Lena was explaining the word bacchanal when Violet and Glo arrived at the back door. Three Stages of Amazement
  • We'll get out my guitar and serenade her and spend bacchanal evenings under the Navajo moon. THE JOE LEAPHORN MYSTERIES
  • She wanders into an idyllic glen, where a kind of bacchanalia is taking place. Creative Loafing Atlanta
  • The aim of the trip is to go porknocking—that is, diamond prospecting—but the narrator is just as interested in the backwater bacchanals. Cheeshahteaumauk, Class of '65 (1665)
  • 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
  • After one too many bacchanalian orgies, Timon realizes that he's squandered his entire fortune and turns to his many friends for financial support.
  • The night ended with more song, some dancing, and much good humour to go around - even the captain took part in the bacchanal and danced a verse or two of ‘Along the Petersburg Road.’
  • 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
  • The giant water bug, or Lethocerus indicus, a three-inch-long South Asian insect that looks uncannily like a local cockroach, is just one of the items on the menu of this bug-eating bacchanal.
  • But what have I, a continuing PhD, done to deserve to join in the debauched bacchanalian revelry of undergrads?
  • At this time, pepper and spices made their entrance, along with meat-eating, Bacchanalian orgies, gluttony, vomitoriums and the gladiatorial displays of cruelty.
  • Ed Fornieles's bright, brash work channels these US imports, from booze-soaked bacchanals aping those in Landis's landmark film to sculptures tapping teenhood's totems and sacred sites. This week's new exhibitions
  • The giant water bug, or Lethocerus indicus, a three-inch-long South Asian insect that looks uncannily like a local cockroach, is just one of the items on the menu of this bug-eating bacchanal.
  • The Bacchanalia got so out of hand that they were forbidden by the Roman Senate in 186 BCE.
  • What, mused Jean-Pierre, had happened to the bacchanalian orgy we feared and hoped for?
  • 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
  • The blogs have been very successful, the surprise being that students' blogs aren't all bacchanal debauchery but have included some intensely personal writing and some well reasoned commentary.
  • One night after the ‘bacchanal’ ended on the topsides, Sancho sent me up to swab away the mess of another of my comrads' blood.
  • 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.
  • Coming from the comparatively sedate Toronto coffeehouse scene, the brothers were dropped into what must have seemed like a bacchanal.
  • He was referring to the Bacchanalia, Roman religious festivals honoring the wine god, Bacchus.
  • As African-descended (including Indo- and Euro-Caribbean) peoples bring their cultures to urban spaces which are heavily policed, bordered, and confined, some interesting frictions emerge when the people break down fences (which occurred at Caribana) to join floats and dance behind enormous trucks with their booming sound systems, insisting on the politics of "bacchanal" (anything goes) and "chaos theory" while resisting the orderly ways of the state. Archive 2007-08-01
  • That, of course, made us the perfect roommates, and together we launched ourselves into the bacchanalia that was New York in the 1970s.
  • It kind of reminds me of the underlying significance of the bacchanalian frivolity of Carnival back home.
  • 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.
  • The life of a supermodel often conjures images of diva designers, bacchanalian parties and jet-set extravagance.
  • Bacchanalia, plura virorum inter sese quam fœminarum stupra. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • 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.
  • 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
  • The Bacchanalia takes place to the soundtrack of hate-fuelled gangsta rap. • How does this conservative look forward to a new Tom Wolfe novel?
  • In his role as a professional eater and drinker on Travel Channel's No Reservations, Anthony Bourdain's omnivorous bacchanals across the globe have become the stuff of foodie legend. A Night Out With Anthony Bourdain
  • 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. Shana Ting Lipton: Rock, Riots, Rebellion and the Real Notting Hill
  • He turned a few more pages and saw a pic of him and Emily which was taken at the Bacchanalia.

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