(1) However, they retained traces of the original Soma worship in Dionysiac rituals.
(2) This modified Dionysiac worship spread throughout the Western world.
(3) However, the Dionysiac celebrants at this orgiastic 60s happening aren't beautiful hippies, but late-middle-aged suburbanites.
Dionysian
Definition:
(a.) Relating to Dionysius, a monk of the 6th century; as, the Dionysian, or Christian, era.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was a riveting and perverse study of decadent Parisian student life, the first of his many films in which Chabrol presents an opposition between a Dionysian character (often called Paul or Popaul) and an Apollonian one (often called Charles), the defender of the status quo.
(2) Some of these factors were similar to the Apollonian, the Dionysian, and the Pythagorean dimensions previously postualted by Nietzsche and Knapp.
(3) Be inspired by the descriptions of Dionysian rites contained therein, enjoying this delicious Greek wine with it: Thymiopoulos Earth & Sky 2011 Xinomavro, Naoussa, Greece (£22.50, bbr.com ) .
(4) The historical antecedents of contemporary Western psychodynamic psychotherapy are examined and the central importance of altered states in the therapeutic effects of religious institutions such as the Dionysian rite and the Asclepia is illustrated.
(5) Naxos doesn't feel particularly Dionysian these days.
(6) The Stade de France was erected in the 1990s outside the Boulevard Périphérique, the Parisian ring road, on land to the south of the Dionysian town at La Plaine, once an industrial area linked to Île de France by the canal Saint‑Denis.
(7) The Dionysian impulse remained a potent force in Twombly's work even as he was approaching 80.
(8) When John Lennon was told of Elvis Presley's death, he famously responded: "Elvis died when he joined the army," meaning of course, that his combat clothing and clipped hair signalled the demise of the thrusting, Dionysian revolution of which he was the immaculate emblem.
(9) Bagayoko bemoaned decades of austerity cuts and a lack of teachers which, with 45% of Dionysians under 30, has left a generation in the wilderness.
(10) He was not one of us.” “Regardless of religious or cultural origins we were always Dionysian first, so the attacks brought us to our knees,” said Bally Bagayoko, the deputy mayor and a practising Muslim.