corybantic

The argument became corybantic and public; it blared; it stopped.

On the other hand, maybe they sought to punish him for using words like "corybantic" and "prolapsed."

And under its magic, wonders thronged in corybantic succession.

As the evening progressed, the interchanges of the Chatelaine became more burlesque and corybantic.

Professor Huxley, in one of his clever phrases, called the Salvation Army "corybantic Christianity."

Like the rockers, Wagner did not captivate his passionate young devotees with words or melody, but with the corybantic throb of the music.

Come now, Mr. Baker, where did you learn that "there's nothing there to whistle" in the "corybantic throb" of Wagner?

If he had understood Christianity he would have known that there never has been, and never can be, any Christianity that is not corybantic.

Akadie spoke in his most didactic voice: The name derives from old Glottisch: Fan is a corybantic celebration of glory.

Thus arrived the age of the "groupie," a polite synonym for "camp follower," connoting a very young woman available for Corybantic frenzies with stars of the performing arts, including sports.

But for the most part the book is a kind of corybantic frieze of all-too-human mankind, its characters parading unforgettably past us, insinuating themselves permanently into our imaginations, populating our mental landscapes.