corybantic
Example Sentences
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Wheeldon’s “Corybantic Games,” set to Leonard Bernstein’s “Serenade After Plato: Symposium,” with Greek-inspired costumes by Erdem Moralioglu, is a reminder of this choreographer’s craft, wit and range.
From New York Times
The auditorium is dark, the stage is lit and the renowned choreographer Christopher Wheeldon is in the circle, watching with a critical eye as the troupe performs a scene from “Corybantic Games,” a new ballet dedicated to the late American composer Leonard Bernstein.
From New York Times
Britons today do not, on the whole, spend their weekends marching behind banners, just as they tend not to join trade unions, go to church or—notwithstanding his popularity among a corybantic minority—support political movements.
From Economist
Snoo Wilson kept bees in his garden in Clapham and knew them all by name Snoo Wilson's collected plays constitute a glorious Corybantic frieze covering vast tracts of human experience, filtered through an imagination that took in anthropology, history, physics, alchemy, mathematics, painting and the occult.
From The Guardian
He laid the corybantic young lady in question upon the table to substantiate his statement.
From Project Gutenberg
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