The Apollonian and Dionysian is a philosophical and literary concept based on parts of ancient Greek mythology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Apollonian and Dionysian Themes « Write Anything] Reference

The Era of the Incarnation, often called the Dionysian Era, was soon much used in Italy and, to some extent, a little later in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy] Reference

We outsource our Dionysian impulses to solid pros.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Twist in Time] Reference

The first morality is active, creative, Dionysian.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none] Reference

She could imagine Dionysian horns sprouting from his head.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord of the Silver Bow]

Dionysian revel -- but his wonder only lasted for a second.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pagan Passions] Reference

He's the Apollonian counterpart to Kirk, the Dionysian hothead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why We Need Steve Jobs] Reference

It's like watching tribal footage of our ancestors 'Dionysian rites.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Unforgettable Face] Reference

But as I approached thirteen a Dionysian element stole over my features.    From Wordnik.com.  [Middlesex]

It was Nietzsche who later opposed the Dionysian element in Greek art to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Madeleine, and rarely make acquaintance with the Dionysian mysteries of Paris.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference

Dionysian conflict in Poe's poems of mystery and beauty and in his gothic tales.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Habermas sees Heidegger and Derrida as heirs to this “Dionysian messianism.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Postmodernism] Reference

In her Dionysian esthetic she had no patience for films that were "good for you.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Passion Of Pauline] Reference

It suggests a dark side to this Dionysian frenzy that we are only beginning to see.    From Wordnik.com.  [Johann Hari: Has The Internet Brought Us Together -- Or Pulled Us Apart?] Reference

He changed back to his Dionysian form, circling warily until Mars had followed suit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pagan Passions] Reference

To paraphrase Nietzsche, there are two types of Greek: the Apollonian and the Dionysian.    From Wordnik.com.  [Middlesex]

Soaked in Dionysian high spirits, "Mondovino" is a fascinating look at the world of wine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Periscope] Reference

Boethian and Dionysian perspectives on analogy in the works of Eckhart and Nicholas of Cusa.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

No more would she ride bareback over the Theran hills or dance and sing in the Dionysian revels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord of the Silver Bow]

The tone can grate -- especially Angier's view that "the female body deserves Dionysian respect.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Boys Need Not Be Boys] Reference

MUSIC For Franz music was the art that comes closest to Dionysian beauty in the sense of intoxication.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unbearable Lightness of Being]

There, other Dionysian Myrmidons were patrolling, making sure that no non-Dionysian got in except by special invitation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pagan Passions] Reference

Hence, Nietzsche believes only a return of the Dionysian art impulse can save modern society from sterility and nihilism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Postmodernism] Reference

For Nietzsche, life is a struggle between man's elevated, "Apollonian" inclinations, and his passionate, "Dionysian" ones.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Music Has Lost] Reference

Tragedy “Dionysian,” where music and the dance, where the dramatic and the lyrical, are the dominant features of life.    From Wordnik.com.  [CYCLES] Reference

Rather, Lerner's poems seem anarchistic, almost Dionysian -- they manifest the centrifugal whirlwind of modernity from inside.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poetry: What Does It Accomplish?] Reference

The evening was so very young that they felt ridiculous with surplus energy, and burst into the café like Dionysian revellers.    From Wordnik.com.  [This Side of Paradise] Reference

History is replete with the stories of this evolutionary battle: Dionysian gluttony, power mongering, wars over ideas and beliefs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sigi Hale, Ph.D.: The Conundrum of Success and True Nobility] Reference

The fraternity system strikes my students here as bizarre and antiquated, its Dionysian initiation rites puerile if not pernicious.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Hard Lesson To Learn] Reference

Dionysian attitude toward life insofar as he affirms his life unconditionally; in particular, insofar as he affirms it including the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nietzsche's Moral and Political Philosophy] Reference

What resulted was an 18-track album of such bad-boy, Dionysian swagger that it's been rereleased on format after format in the years since.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gimme Danger] Reference

The Myrmidons grinned in expectation of the good times coming; a Dionysian festival was always something special, and competition for the contingents was always tough.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pagan Passions] Reference