How To Use Bacchic In A Sentence
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It is certainly difficult to play, not only for the pianist and orchestra – who must continually wrestle with dense, muddy scoring – but also the piano itself, which barely survived the final cadenza, the muscular Denis Matsuev's assault on the instrument egged on by Bacchic interjections from woodwind and brass.
Matsuev/LSO/Gergiev
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Any dolt can see the connection between the mother-smothered Amis and the later unstoppable tit-man who was also a slave to Bacchic overindulgence.
One Fraught Englishman
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The dithyramb (_dithyrambos_ or Bacchic step, [- '' -]) brought a new step to the dance and therefore a new element into poetry, for all dances were choric, that is to say they were sung as well as danced.
Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University
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To be sure, Pentheus hubristic decrees forbidding the Bacchic rites to take place in his city are transgressions of the natural order, rupturae on a higher level.
Archive 2009-06-01
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A day Bacchic, through doorway of a residence , wine emerges, spit to that doorway continuously.
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I never understood how it was that he respected me, for he was quite drunk, and in a kind of Bacchic fury.
The memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
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a fountain crowned by a Bacchic Kantharos, and wrote on its epistyle a brilliant epigram, inviting the faithful to purify themselves bodily and spiritually, before presenting themselves to the apostle within.
Pagan and Christian Rome
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O Thebes, nurse of Semele! crown thyself with ivy; burst forth, burst forth with blossoms fair of green convolvulus, and with the boughs of oak and pine join in the Bacchic revelry; dor; - thy coat of dappled fawn-skin, decking it with tufts of silvered hair; with reverent hand the sportive wand now wield.
The Bacchantes
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For just as those trained in the canons of the lyre declare the sesquialter proportion produces the symphony diapente, the double proportion the diapason, the sesquiterte the diatessaron, the slowest of all, so the specialists in Bacchic harmonies have detected three accords between wine and water — Diapente,
Essays and Miscellanies
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It is a product of classical studies of the ancient Phrygian terrorist cult of Satan-Dionysos, the model for the Roman Bacchic cults of similar characteristics.
Lyndon LaRouche on Satanism by Grand Magister Blackwood | Disinformation
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The “rock rythm” itself is copied from the old Dionysian-Bacchic cults.
Lyndon LaRouche on Satanism by Grand Magister Blackwood | Disinformation
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And all Bacchic backside are the developer that be looked attentively at silently and awaits.
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For just as those trained in the canons of the lyre declare the sesquialter proportion produces the symphony diapente, the double proportion the diapason, the sesquiterte the diatessaron, the slowest of all, so the specialists in Bacchic harmonies have detected three accords between wine and water — Diapente,
Essays and Miscellanies
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The rending of Pentheus on Mount Citheron by his own mother and sisters, who, while under the influence of the Bacchic _afflatus_, imagined they saw in his form the appearance of a wild beast, might be adduced as an example at once of the furious character of the frenzy, and of the liability of the afflated to optical illusions.
The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II
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Our women it seems have left their homes on some pretence of Bacchic worship, and are now gadding about on the wooded mountain slopes, dancing in honour of this upstart god, Dionysus
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No matter be, consider for the spouse, the male is in Bacchic beside had better lean close darlingly still in the sweetheart later, with thick sleep wine of disappear disappear incomplete.
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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
