bacchantic

The forces compensating this calamitous development personified themselves partly in the later Schelling, partly in Schopenhauer and Carus, while on the other hand that unbridled bacchantic

Romanticism, Alchemy, and Psychology 2008

Following an extended barrage of arrack-scented kisses, during which each of her sumptuous bulges had been lovingly measured and stroked; during which his lingam had been symbolically peeled and repeeled as if it were the principal effigy of a bacchantic banana cult, she had presented herself for lubrication.

Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000

Following an extended barrage of arrack-scented kisses, during which each of her sumptuous bulges had been lovingly measured and stroked; during which his lingam had been symbolically peeled and repeeled as if it were the principal effigy of a bacchantic banana cult, she had presented herself for lubrication.

Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000

But, beginning with the story of the barbarian invasions in the third volume, Professor Jones's interpretation took on a fury that was almost bacchantic.

The Patient Observer And His Friends Simeon Strunsky 1913

The Venus and bacchantic music will be heard again in the second and third acts; but the rest consists of numbers almost as completely detached as those that make up the Dutchman, though the joinings are not only more skilful, but are real music and not mere padding.

Wagner Runciman, John F 1913

The Venus and bacchantic music will be heard again in the second and third acts; but the rest consists of numbers almost as completely detached as those that make up the _Dutchman_, though the joinings are not only more skilful, but are real music and not mere padding.

Wagner John F. Runciman 1891

I arrived late and only saw the end of the processions; far more carriages, wilder shouting, more madness, -- bacchantic, stormy, -- than last time.

Recollections of My Childhood and Youth Georg Morris Cohen Brandes 1884

But he also is drawn into the vortex, tears off his clothes and dances before Samuel and David, the only self-possessed spectators of the bacchantic company, till he falls down; and he lies naked as he is a whole day and a whole night upon the ground -- whence the proverb, "Is Saul also among the prophets?"

Prolegomena Julius Wellhausen 1881

I hardly know what of bacchantic joyousness I had not attributed to them on their holidays: a people living in a mild climate under such a lovely sky, with wine cheap and abundant, might not unreasonably have been expected to put on a show of the greatest jollity when enjoying themselves.

Venetian Life William Dean Howells 1878

You can only exorcise and curse me, or slay yourselves in bacchantic madness before my altar.

Venus in Furs Leopold Sacher-Masoch 1865