It's the orgy, the bacchanal, that is to still the lamentations of the poor! ". From Wordnik.com. [An Eagle Flight A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere] Reference
He offers an orgy of spending and a bacchanal of debt. From Wordnik.com. [Flip-Flops and Governance] Reference
A Hangover-style bacchanal, complete with zoo animals?. From Wordnik.com. [Una LaMarche: Project Runway Episode 12 Recap: Empire State of Meh] Reference
A bowl of punch! each merry bacchanal rises at the call!. From Wordnik.com. [A Love Story] Reference
Too long have we been blind to the bacchanal of corruption. From Wordnik.com. [Public Speaking] Reference
It was kind of a two or three-day bacchanal in New Orleans. From Wordnik.com. [Hill Rat: Blowing the Lid Off Congress] Reference
Just after Max was born, their first drunken bacchanal in a year. From Wordnik.com. [Walking To Gibraltar, Chapter 7: In Which Pictures Were All He Could Feel (First Musical Interlude)] Reference
We gave Richard a huge farewell party that turned into a bacchanal. From Wordnik.com. [ɘloЯ] Reference
The convention is a regular bacchanal of corporate-sponsored partying. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Democratic National Convention: Joseph Lieberman to Give Keynote Address - August 16, 2000] Reference
And it was just at night that you had these -- these bacchanal party things. From Wordnik.com. [The Kinder, Gentler Military: Can America's Gender-Neutral Fighting Force Still Win Wars?] Reference
After all, who would choose the boardroom over an exquisitely lush bacchanal?. From Wordnik.com. [Fashion Week: Dolce and Gabbana, Robert Cavalli, Brioni, Giorgio Armani] Reference
The individual I had seen at Baden, -- the gamester, the bacchanal, the debauchee!. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861] Reference
His eye was alight, his color coppery, his air swagger, devil-may-care, bacchanal. From Wordnik.com. [The Titan] Reference
Of what are you thinking, good head and good heart, in the midst of this bacchanal?. From Wordnik.com. [The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters] Reference
It was a highly improper, ill-timed bacchanal, which, of course, was the general idea. From Wordnik.com. [The Alibi]
But that was some time ago, and the recent parties have had very little bacchanal to them. From Wordnik.com. [Eggnog and Ego] Reference
After his bacchanal weekend, Don awakens to discover that he forgot to pick up his children. From Wordnik.com. [Janet Turley: Mad Men Season 4, Episode 6 -- Dissolving Identity and the Female Gaze] Reference
Amid the bacchanal that is the Beltway stimulus debate, a rare note of sobriety has sounded. From Wordnik.com. [Obama's Trade Deflection] Reference
Vatican bacchanal is proved by the same letter, whose author relates it as a well-known fact. From Wordnik.com. [Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day] Reference
All the porch lights were extinguished marking the end of another successful Halloween bacchanal. From Wordnik.com. [13 Halloweens] Reference
Here are berries enough to paint afresh the western sky, and play the bacchanal with, if you will. From Wordnik.com. [Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers] Reference
It was all rather innocently bacchanal -- a picture which for Becky had an absolutely impersonal quality. From Wordnik.com. [The Trumpeter Swan] Reference
Bowers the most jocund bacchanal of all; the operator boxed over his instrument against harm and slipped out; and. From Wordnik.com. [The Henchman] Reference
By attending, of course, hoping to get in one last bacchanal before the party's formal charade began the next day. From Wordnik.com. [Win McCormack: Party Like it's 2008 -- and You're a Family Values Republican] Reference
I went to Winter Music Conference in Miami, the annual industry bacchanal that takes place in clubs across South Beach. From Wordnik.com. [Joshua Glazer: 90,000 Ravers With Very Few Clothes Break Attendance Record at Electric Daisy Carnival] Reference
And never more so than during the final countdown to what is the great bacchanal for sports junkies: the NFL draft weekend. From Wordnik.com. [NFL Draft Report: Silence is Golden!] Reference
What a bacchanal festival of color and beauty now appeared the candy-factory whitewashed lunch room with the marble-topped tables!. From Wordnik.com. [Working With the Working Woman] Reference
In fact, someone writing in The Chronicle of Higher Education once dubbed the MLA, "that annual bacchanal of sexless sadomasochism.". From Wordnik.com. [Joanne Rendell: Conference Sex, or What Professors Get Up to at Holiday Time] Reference
In February 2007, Schwarzman marked his 60th birthday with a highly visible multimillion-dollar bacchanal in the Park Avenue Armory. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Diary: "Rabbit Ragu Democrats"] Reference
He vaguely remembered puking up pints of sour mash in the rosebushes in front of The Green Pine after a particularly wild bacchanal. From Wordnik.com. [Where There's Smoke]
I didn't lapse madly and inexplicably into a mind-blowing years-long bacchanal with an indeterminate number of crazy-beautiful women. From Wordnik.com. [I Am Sorry for That Thing I Did] Reference
But for the characters in the Emile Zola short story "The Fête at Coqueville," a weeklong bacchanal brings about peace and reconciliation. From Wordnik.com. [Do They Taste of Trumpets?] Reference
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