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
It is littered with brushes, canvases, casts, etc., and its walls are frescoed indiscriminately with saints and bacchantes, satyrs and Madonnas, on backgrounds religious or woodland.
From The Immortal Lure by Cale Young Rice
Again he says that the bacchantes, possessed by the god, drink milk and honey from the rivers, and cannot believe, till they recover their senses, that they have been drinking mere water.
From The Function of the Poet and Other Essays by James Russell Lowell
The bacchantes screamed in heaven-piercing voices, and began to hide in the chariots.
From Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero by Jeremiah Curtin
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 John Charles Van Dyke
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 J. B. (John Bagnell) Bury
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 S. C. (Stephen Cullen) Carpenter
