The orchestra played bacchantic music, and in bacchantic madness the dancers rushed by each other.
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Bacchantic
Synonyms for "bacchantic" (9 found)
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6 entriesaesthetic descriptorbehavior descriptorcultic descriptorliterary devicemythological attributesocial phenomenon
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8 entriesBacchanalian imageryBacchic ritesDionysian rhetoricDionysian ritualdrunken revelryecstatic dictionorgiastic festivalriotous celebration
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6 entriesDionysian festivalbacchantic frenzybacchic ritesecstatic moodorgiastic revelrywine cult
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2 entriesmore bacchanticmost bacchantic
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13 total sentences available.
There is a passage from chaos to cosmos marked by the "bacchantic" riots of Nature and even ourselves.
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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 ) .
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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.
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