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- adjective
wild andecstatic
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Examples
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Nietzsche recognized these impulses as Satanic – dionysiac – in quality.
Lyndon LaRouche on Satanism by Grand Magister Blackwood | Disinformation 2008
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He thought of dionysiac rites among various backward peoples and asked with great care,
do you ever read writing? Peter DeWolf 2010
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As in "The Blithedale Romance" (based on Concord's Brook Farm), a utopian experiment unravels; as in "The Maypole of Merry Mount," puritanical elders squash a neighboring community of dionysiac cultists.
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Pericles was known as "The Olympian," not only for his intelligence and his aloofness from the more garrulous and dionysiac social life of the city, but for his ease and beauty of expression.
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Pericles was known as "The Olympian," not only for his intelligence and his aloofness from the more garrulous and dionysiac social life of the city, but for his ease and beauty of expression.
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When she laid eyes on the bizarre, satyrical figure of Gibreel Farishta prancing and dionysiac in the snow, Rosa Diamond did not think of _say it_ angels.
The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967
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Between him and Debussy there is the difference between the apollonian and the dionysiac, between the smooth, level, contained, perfect, and the darker, more turbulent, passionate, and instinctive.
Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Paul Rosenfeld 1918
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If there is a single modern orchestral work that can be compared to either of the two great ballets of Strawinsky for rhythmical vitality, it is "Daphnis et Chloé," with its flaming dionysiac pulses, its "pipes and timbrels," its wild ecstasy.
Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Paul Rosenfeld 1918
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In general, increase of the productive powers of labor requires an increase of relative physical-capital intensity, as well as scientific-technological intensity, including improved qualities and degrees of education, and including greater required emphasis on Classical forms of culture, rather than dionysiac revels.
LaRouche's Latest 2009
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"This is no more a dionysiac culture than yours or mine.
do you ever read writing? Peter DeWolf 2010
carolinacc commented on the word dionysiac
Pertaining to the greek god Dionysius, the twice-born.
July 1, 2008
asativum commented on the word dionysiac
Great word! Rolls off the tongue. Too bad the early computer-makers stopped at Eniac and Illiac.
July 1, 2008