| Cromwell's Puritanism was offended by bacchanalian revelry, led by the Lord of Misrule. |
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| But what have I, a continuing PhD, done to deserve to join in the debauched bacchanalian revelry of undergrads? |
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| Not that my life has been a wild bacchanalian phantasmagoria of debauchery and dissipation, but I've had my moments. |
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| What, mused Jean-Pierre, had happened to the bacchanalian orgy we feared and hoped for? |
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| True, the book is subtle and extremely restrained, compared to writers' coming-of-age bacchanalian classics like On the Road. |
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| The life of a supermodel often conjures images of diva designers, bacchanalian parties and jet-set extravagance. |
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| Luckily enough, most of Scotland was spared shameful scenes of bacchanalian excess. |
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| It kind of reminds me of the underlying significance of the bacchanalian frivolity of Carnival back home. |
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| I resorted to telemarketing to pay for my bacchanalian lifestyle during the lean years of college. |
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| A country so rich in frescoes and carvings of bacchanalian festivities must know a thing or two about making wine. |
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| I remember being 17 and being caught by my father puking up in the loo after a particularly bacchanalian dinner party. |
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| A rare and ancient wine bowl depicting bacchanalian scenes of naked men and women has emerged. |
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| After one too many bacchanalian orgies, Timon realizes that he's squandered his entire fortune and turns to his many friends for financial support. |
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| Large black figure skyphos, decorated with a scene of bacchanalian between two sphinxes on both sides. |
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| College-admissions deans and potential employers browse bacchanalian footage. |
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| At Kim's set-piece bacchanalian parties, Madame Choi sat next to him as his trophy. |
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| There are countless bacchanalian brotherhoods, of which the Confrérie Saint-Etienne is one of the oldest in France. |
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| The heart and soul of the movie is Alan, a shy Texan teetotaller who's confronted with a display of bacchanalian excess that would've impressed Caligula. |
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| Since medieval times their annual fair was famous not only for its heights of bacchanalian revelry but also for the ferocious brawls that would inevitably break out. |
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| One of the reasons Hollywood has always liked sword-and-sandal epics is that it has vainly seen itself in the lascivious, bacchanalian lifestyle of the rich and Roman. |
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| He was mainly active in Rome, where he arrived c. 1625-8 and became the leader of the Schildersbent, a bacchanalian fraternity of Netherlandish artists living in the city. |
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| Despite the presence of bacchantes and the references to wine, the bacchanalian aspect of the scene is greatly subdued, reducing the feeling of revelry and recklessness. |
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| Today, very numerous and often of the recent creation, bacchanalian brotherhoods, if they prove to be still faithful to the worship of the saint boss, such saint Vincent, are especially characterized by their secular aspects. |
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| That year, signifying his intent to survive the disease and continue working, he issued the bizarrely comic Caracole, about the bacchanalian escapades of the denizens of an imagined city. |
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| The colleagues whose bacchanalian habits and social position had made them so attractive began to prove irksome, and their insistence on their superior experience and status galled Pepys's pride. |
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| The murals, not badly done, depicted Bacchanalian orgies from various eras of history. |
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| Reacting against Bacchanalian rites and orgies, they aimed at purifying the soul. |
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| Tales abound of Bacchanalian excess and Lost Weekends, and when the Lord's party convened at the clubhouse last month, they revelled in reminiscing without bowdlerism. |
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| At this time, pepper and spices made their entrance, along with meat-eating, Bacchanalian orgies, gluttony, vomitoriums and the gladiatorial displays of cruelty. |
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