bacchanale

The handling of scale is masterly: a lovers 'chase can expand into a ferocious group bacchanale in a second; a stageful of violent emotion can be dissipated with a single dancer's shrug.

Pina Bausch's Tanztheater Wuppertal: Agua 2010

I expected DC Beer Week to be a bacchanale, but it turned out to be more of a wedding ceremony, celebrating one of the hot trends in craft brewing: the marriage of American hops and Belgian yeast.

Beer: A week to remember 2010

At the end, we didn't quite have a full-on bacchanale, but we had a nice pizza party before everyone had to drive home.

Woodstock 5: Putting It All Together James Gurney 2009

Once upon a time I would have at least given passing consideration to joining in this ridiculous bacchanale.

June 2nd, 2008 2008

For the “rugissements et bondissements, bacchanale et saturnale, galop infernal, ronde du sabbat tout le tremblement,” these words give a most clear, untranslatable idea of the Carnival ball.

The Paris Sketch Book 2006

It will be as the lives of the Romans in Greece -- a bacchanale of peculiar formalities.

Clair de Lune A Play in Two Acts and Six Scenes Michael Strange

Wherein we catch, like a bacchanale through thunder,

Captain Craig: II. III. Captain Craig, Etc 1921

For the "rugissements et bondissements, bacchanale et saturnale, galop infernal, ronde du sabbat tout le tremblement," these words give a most clear, untranslatable idea of the Carnival ball.

The Paris Sketch Book William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

This violent bacchanale continues for a full 12 minutes - pushing way beyond the bounds of comedy and into the territory of serious alarm.

The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2011

When she discovers a "drunk-ass lesbian" (Bobbi Starr) passed out on her lawn after yet another vagitarian bacchanale, Ireland takes matters in her own hands and starts a petition among proper neighborhood ladies to oust them.

Fleshbot Gram Ponante 2009