bacchantic

Example Sentences

• "The orchestra played bacchantic music, and in bacchantic madness the dancers rushed by each other."
• "There is a passage from chaos to cosmos marked by the "bacchantic" riots of Nature and even ourselves."
• "Yet nature is Spirit only in its otherness— self-alienated Spriit: "A bacchantic god innocent of restraint and reflection has merely been let loose into it " ( E §247z ) ."
• "the reason for this was twofold: insufficient acquaintance with the metaphors applied to public life and, on the other hand, sublimation on principle of all erotic and bacchantic elements into mystic allegory."
• "Indeed the Tereus episode resembles the Hecuba even more closely because it combines the motif of a conspiracy of women (a motif also parodied in Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae, Lysistrata, and Ecclesiazusae) with the motif of bacchantic rage and collective violence . It is even possible that this bacchantic motif entered Ovid's tale via Sophocles' lost Tereus, though this is only conjecture."
• "His friend Ted dancing the can-can trouserless with his shirt-tails flying, is an absurd equivalent to the bacchantic worshippers, who were supposed to don female dress during the rite."