corybantic
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Grocer's apostrophes are scribbled out, misspellings fixed, and good lord the corybantic orgy of less/fewer corrections.
From The Guardian • Mar. 4, 2013
The writhings and stomping of Marat/Sade's insane have inspired a corybantic kind of choreography in which the dancers become as hopelessly intertwined as the Laoco�n family.
From Time Magazine Archive
From his life with his mother he would seem to have gotten not only an abiding detestation for the beautiful per se, the noble emotion nobly expressed, but also his almost corybantic intelligence.
From Time Magazine Archive
I have a vivid recollection of him in the mysteries of the SEMICUACUA, a somewhat corybantic dance which left much to the invention of the performers, and very little to the imagination of the spectator.
From Selected Stories of Bret Harte by Harte, Bret
No Bacchic revels on Mount Parnassus were ever more corybantic.
From All Around the Moon by Roth, Edward
