(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.
Irrational
Definition:
(a.) Not rational; void of reason or understanding; as, brutes are irrational animals.
(a.) Not according to reason; absurd; foolish.
(a.) Not capable of being exactly expressed by an integral number, or by a vulgar fraction; surd; -- said especially of roots. See Surd.
Example Sentences:
(1) Take-out: Apple can still innovate and Apple can still generate irrational lust out of thin air.
(2) Irrational fear, anxiety and prejudice are not less common among health professionals than in the community generally; they require attention in HIV-related educational programs.
(3) This is the latest rejection for an irrational bully whose brand is increasingly toxic.” Referring to earlier controversial comments made on the US campaign trail, Salmond also said of Trump: His behaviour and comments are unlikely to attract the votes of many Mexican Americans or Muslim Americans.
(4) The high prevalence of harmful habits in the young families and also some unfavourable features of their lifestyle were detected (low physical activity, irrational diet, etc).
(5) Sure enough, the rowdy crowd in the Fox News audience gave him a lusty boo - the loudest of a rambunctious night and maybe of the entire primary season so far - while Gingrich called him "utterly irrational" for questioning the manner of Bin Laden's killing.
(6) There are rationally treatable fears arising from the acute situation (especially in rehabilitation patients) as well as the irrational anxieties of the mainly endogenous depressive.
(7) The irrational motivations of refusal (particularly, denial and delusional ideation) have been evoked much more often then rational motivations (therapeutic inefficiency, secondary effects).
(8) Although critics have argued that psychiatric medications in correctional settings are often prescribed in a clinically irrational manner, without adequate diagnostic criteria, and for the purposes of coercive control rather than treatment, there has been no systematic research in an attempt to validate these claims.
(9) And they should be able to "tolerate high levels of ambiguity and uncertainty and rapid change – and at times irrational political demands".
(10) He described Anderson as “highly intelligent,” “irrational,” and “calculated” in the violence he carried out against his former partner, Rosie Batty and their son.
(11) The danger is that it will leave their irrational aspects intact, while stripping away the essential protections they offer to our wildlife.
(12) In general, providing up-to-date information in a small group setting can effectively reduce irrational fears.
(13) People are dying to get into this company because they are on Facebook, it's irrational if you look at the numbers.
(14) Debating issues such as unemployment benefits and the rehabilitation of prisoners, I was suddenly propelled into the role of standalone lefty whose views were brandished "dreamy" and "irrational".
(15) The most frequent causes for destabilization of the remission were bronchopulmonary infections, incorrect reduction or discontinuing of the medication, formal supportive therapy, psychologic demobilization and irrational supportive therapy.
(16) I assert that this state of biological psychiatry is due to its violation of an epistemological criterion of rationality, i.e., the relevance criterion; that is, contemporary biological psychiatry is irrational as it adopts a conception irrelevant to the psychobiological domain.
(17) It is contended that these deviations, rather than representing irrational biases, could be due to (a) unspecified information over which causal inferences are computed and (b) the questionable normativeness of the models against which these deviations have been measured.
(18) But only now, when the world's biggest economies have been lashed by the fallout from the irrational exuberance of the markets, has the idea captured the imagination of their leaders, including Gordon Brown , right.
(19) The combined application of clonidine and prazosin in antihypertensive treatment is probably not only irrational but ought to be discouraged in view of the interaction between the drugs, which leads to a reduced antihypertensive potency of clonidine.
(20) He said Iran's enemies had understood the message of the naval exercises, saying: "We have no plan to begin any irrational act but we are ready against any threat."