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
Then occurs another outflow from the thyrsus and cup, and another round of the bacchantes to the sound of drums and cymbals.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 by Various
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
Supposing the motive cords properly wound around vertical bobbins, instead of a horizontal one, and we have the half revolution of Bacchus and Victory, as well as the complete revolution of the bacchantes.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 by Various
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
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
