What's the difference between bacchanalia and orgy?
Bacchanalia
Definition:
(n. pl.) A feast or an orgy in honor of Bacchus.
(n. pl.) Hence: A drunken feast; drunken reveler.
Example Sentences:
(1) Directed by An Education’s Lone Scherfig and adapted by Laura Wade from her play Posh, The Riot Club is substantially inspired by Oxford University’s Bullingdon Club, the exclusive dining society whose tailcoated men behaving badly enjoy debauched bacchanalia at the expense of plebs.
(2) But as the bacchanalia faded into the heaviness of prison, the hangover hung deep in one man’s regretful sigh: “Damn, I should’ve never gone into that liquor store.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Baltimore riot.
Orgy
Definition:
(n.) A frantic revel; drunken revelry. See Orgies
Example Sentences:
(1) The dismissals were prompted by their participation in a racist orgy during what was supposed to be a goodwill trip to the homeland of the club’s billionaire owner, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha.
(2) Additional examples were given including stories that Madeleine had been "sold" to ease financial burdens and that the McCanns were involved in "swinging" or "wife-swapping orgies".
(3) Meanwhile, on the same day, Max Mosley, the former Formula One boss outed by the News of the World for participating in a sado-masochistic orgy, lost his legal challenge to force newspapers to warn people before publishing stories exposing their private lives, after a European court ruled on Tuesday that such as system would have a "chilling effect" on the press.
(4) He'd heard about the orgies in [American footballer] Jim Brown's house and he was like, 'Tell me about those orgies.'"
(5) To people who have faith that the world can heal itself through the unfettered interaction of economically rational individuals, and that, if capitalism were allowed to operate freely, there would be no more slumps and bubbles because the invisible hand of the market would guide everything to its rightful price, the seasonal rush must seem like an orgy of blasphemy.
(6) As Michelle Alexander wrote in The New Jim Crow, “The current system of control depends on black exceptionalism; it is not disproved or undermined by it.” The orgy of exceptionalism tales highlighted every Black History Month can undermine seeing the systemic oppressions still facing African Americans.
(7) In the first comments from Epstein’s representatives since the Guardian revealed on Friday that the prince had been named in a Florida court motion, an attorney for the disgraced financier said: “These are stale, rehashed allegations that lawyers are now attempting to repackage and spice up by adding the names of prominent people.” Virginia Roberts, who says she was 17 when she first met the Duke of York in London, claims she was forced to have sexual contact with him by Epstein, in London, New York and on his private island in the Caribbean during an “orgy”.
(8) We're about to engage in the single greatest orgy of industrial-grade mourning porn the world has ever known.
(9) She claims she was involved in an “orgy” in the US Virgin Islands with the prince, Epstein and eight other girls who she said all appeared to be under 18.
(10) Banner says that her work progresses more by accident than by design, although she clearly works hard, spending long days alone in her studio with her dog, Olive (a mongrel or "Hackney orgy dog" who recently took a tumble through the hole in the floorboards around Tornado Nude).
(11) March 30 2008: The News of the World splashes on its exposé under the heading "F1 boss has sick Nazi orgy with 5 hookers" with an inside double-page spread.
(12) The head of the FSB at the time told a press conference that the recording of the orgy was genuine.
(13) Fury erupted again in September 2003 when the media reported that 400 Japanese tourists had hired 500 Chinese prostitutes for a two-day orgy in the south-eastern resort of Zhuhai.
(14) This orgy of self-discovery is the perfect place for yet more secrets to out.
(15) If Britain witnessed the mother of all booms in the late 1980s, when the rate was never lower than 7.5%, then 0.5% borrowing costs would surely prompt an orgy of reckless spending.
(16) "He found for Max Mosley because he had not engaged in a 'sick Nazi orgy' as the News of the World claimed, though for the life of me that seems an almost surreally pedantic logic as some of the participants were dressed in military-style uniform," Dacre added.
(17) Shoppers in the US kicked off their annual "Black Friday" orgy of consumerism amid scenes of pushing, pulling, running and – in one case – pepper-spraying their way through the doors of the nation's shops and malls.
(18) And so we got to the apartment and they'd been having an orgy in the other room.
(19) The novella tells the story of a jewel robbery that takes place during a sexual orgy.
(20) Motion pictures were not born in religious practice, but instead are a totally profane offspring of capitalism and technology,” writes Paul Schrader in his landmark book, Transcendental Style in Film, in which he isolates two strains of religious film-making: the epics of Cecil B DeMille, presenting religion as spectacle, with teeming hordes, VistaVision, shafts of light, and strangely subdued orgies.