bacchant
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Everyone who has ever seen a Jack Lemmon movie will instantly surmise that the model account exec is a three-button bacchant, and so he is.
From Time Magazine Archive
They also show off by picking up guitars and microphones and dancing like prairie bacchantes.
From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2019
The tension is not in the contest but in the axiomatic revelation uttered by the chorus of the bacchantes: "Knowledge is not wisdom."
From Time Magazine Archive
Satyrs, fauns and bacchantes saluted him, tumbled him, buffeted him: one snatched off his scarlet fillet and crowned him with a wreath of grape-leaves, while a second thrust a thyrsus into his hand.
From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Miller, Elizabeth
Among them, with trunks caught as it were in the warm embraces of these troops of bacchantes, are thousands of silver-green olive-trees.
From The Near East Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople by Hichens, Robert (Robert Smythe)
Frequently he had companions, three or four schützen and twice as many bacchantes, the former performing, in fact, in rough style, the part of fags to the older students.
From Count Ulrich of Lindburg A Tale of the Reformation in Germany by Kingston, William Henry Giles
He painted all sorts of subjects, but was seen at his best in mythological scenes with groups of drunken satyrs and bacchants, surrounded by a close-placed landscape.
From A Text-Book of the History of Painting by Van Dyke, John Charles
The influence, direct and indirect, of these German philosophers reached far beyond the narrow circle of the bacchants or even the wandbearers of idealism.
From The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth by Bury, J. B. (John Bagnell)
In their other religious festivals also, choruses of fauns and bacchants chaunted songs and held up individuals to public ridicule.
From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Vol I, No. 2, February 1810 by Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen)
