How To Use Bacchanalian In A Sentence
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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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20-25 is really the only time you'll have for Bacchanalian orgiastic sex of the highest caliber.
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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
Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House
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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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A rare and ancient wine bowl depicting bacchanalian scenes of naked men and women has emerged.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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?
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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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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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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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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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Not that my life has been a wild bacchanalian phantasmagoria of debauchery and dissipation, but I've had my moments.
