bacchanal
Bacchic

There's even a bacchanal menu, for a group for $105 a person.

All around us the bacchanal raged more furiously.

Yet the booming popularity of these bacchanal computer conferences and trade shows is not solely for profit's sake.

He also knew the energy level he wanted in the bacchanal scene: high, "like an ancient Mexican fertility rite."

The bacchanal complete, call a cab from ominously named Mausoleum Taxi.

Satyrs were known for their great erotic lust, fertility, bacchanal fondness for wine and revelry with unsuspecting nymphs.

And once again, the Met dancers and a large roster of muscled male extras dressed in loincloths pranced about during the campy bacchanal scene.

He goeth shining on His way, and before Him the Earth reeleth in the rhythm of her Bacchanal dance!"

Those who knew Lokhvitskaya personally later spoke of the stark contrast between the poetess's bacchanal reputation on the one side and her real self on the other.

Ms. Graves, the mezzo soprano who sings Dalila, watched the bacchanal scene from the audience and said the dancers looked like dolphins leaping from partner to partner.

The virgins are sacrificed before the Golden Calf during a bacchanal scene and were included in Schoenberg's original scenario for the work, which was composed between 1930 and 1932.

The music, lush and sensuous, is most recognizable from the pulse-racing bacchanal ballet in the third act, a concert favorite that is far more popular than the opera as a whole.

Although they take place in very different settings, the Aronses' Gotham fairy tale and Mr. Mason's Bushwick Avenue bacchanal share a few things.

He chose Bacchus as the chateau's artistic theme, making bacchanal the subject of the giant fountain in the garden, frescoes on the facade and the painting covering the dome inside the atrium.

The production offers hanging scrims brush-stroked with lurid shades of red, orange and black, not to mention a stage full of gyrating, scantily clad men and women in the bacchanal scene.

'NIP/TUCK' - The compelling FX series about beauty and disfigurement lost its goth focus and slipped into a bacchanal free-for-all with no new ideas.

In the book "Lights Out in Wonderland" by DBC Pierre, the protagonist leaves London in pursuit of a "Bacchanal unrivalled since the fall of Rome".

But the bough of dripping chocolate grapes are only a fabricated illustration, and a picture of the real glass of chocolate wine on the opposite page looks decidedly less alluring and less bacchanal.

The real celebration starts the opening of mas camp launch, several bacchanal Fridays and performers both native to Jamaica and from all over the West Indies come to get everyone in the festive mood.

A Reaction to Donatist Excess - Augustine displayed a revulsion to the Donatists' bacchanal feasts which seemingly used excessive amounts of food and drink (City of God, 20.7).

Elijah Moshinsky's production fills the stage with hanging scrims and sliding panels brush-stroked with reds, oranges and pinks, not to mention a troupe of scantily clad men and women for the Bacchanal scene.

Having calypso identified with bacchanal meant that calypso was linked and limited to the bacchanal season of Carnival: "Once upon a time the entire Carnival was an expression of rebellion.

The rest of Pike's gang returns to Agua Verde for shelter, where a bacchanal celebrating the weapons purchase has commenced; to their disgust, they see Angel is being dragged on the ground by a rope tied behind the General's car.