roister

After that roistering swagger, the poem unexpectedly closes with the conjunction of the wistful and worldly:

Meanwhile, Queen Victoria’s son, the future Edward VII, devoted his energies to gambling, overeating, pursuing women and roistering with unsavory companions.

Both movies lavish attention on waterfront dives, roistering sailors and back-alley hôtels de passe.

At last only two of that roistering, impudent band were left, the priest of the suitors and their bard.

“The Masque of the Red Death” was Corman’s audacious attempt to make an art film for the drive-in crowd — a feast of roistering revelry with intimations of Buñuel, Fellini and Bergman.