(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.
Undisciplined
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) He also had difficulty communicating with these American analysands and largely blamed them for their undisciplined way of speaking.
(2) "Here in the Vatican they scold me for being undisciplined but you can see what country I come from," he said – alluding, according to Ansa, to the scrum formed by the Argentinian players while the Italians formed a queue.
(3) Short, skinny and by his own admission somewhat geekish, Wilson nevertheless stood his ground in the inevitable confrontation with the neighbourhood bully at each new school, among them the Gulf Coast Military Academy, which he described as "a carefully planned nightmare engineered for the betterment of the untutored and undisciplined".
(4) For his part, Löfven rejected criticism of his performance, saying Lööf's stunt smacked of the antics of an undisciplined party youth wing.
(5) Serum digoxin determination is especially necessary in patients with renal failure and in undisciplined patients with erratic digitalis intake.
(6) Whether this is done to provoke protesters at a rally or casually or even as a joke, it is an unacceptable quality in anyone seeking the job of Commander in Chief.” “But we’ve seen again and again that no amount of failed resets can change who Donald Trump is.” The call to leave the Democratic nominee protected by unarmed secret service agents, first made by Trump in May, raised eyebrows as a reversion to the undisciplined candidate of the primaries rather than the more scripted one of recent weeks.
(7) It is disjointed, undisciplined, demoralised and poorly paid, with the lowest-ranking soldiers getting little more than $20 (£12) a month.
(8) I know there have been a lot of points, but these guys are mostly playing some bad, wildly undisciplined football.
(9) But Philip Hope-Wallace in the Manchester Guardian was cautiously approving (“I believe they have got a potential playwright at last”), John Barber in the Daily Express got highly excited (describing the play as “intense, angry, feverish, undisciplined” but also “young, young, young”), and Derek Granger in the Financial Times was intelligently appreciative (“its influence should go far beyond such an eccentric and isolated one-man turn as Waiting for Godot”).
(10) First Pepe conceded a spot kick in the 53rd minute, then an undisciplined tackle from Marcelo allowed Rayo to claw their way back into the game in the 55th minute.
(11) He remains both wildly charismatic and maddeningly undisciplined.
(12) He’s probably too lazy and undisciplined to usurp power.
(13) I was furious, I was an undisciplined soldier and I lost my composure.
(14) Kellyanne is the soulless, machiavellian despot America deserves not this undisciplined hobbit-handed omnishambles,” she said.
(15) Tyrone Vickery kicked a brilliant goal from the boundary after Brian Lake’s undisciplined shove and, when Taylor Hunt cut off an ill-advised kick across the face of goal by Josh Gibson to set up Kane Lambert, Richmond led by 18 points at three-quarter time.
(16) The development of "undisciplined" mental health professionals with degrees in mental health should be considered.
(17) If that isn't an undisciplined team and a prime minister who follows his party, rather than leads, would you like to tell me what is," she told the Commons leader, Andrew Lansley, who had insisted Wednesday's vote was not a rebellion.
(18) Trump was criticised as rash, undisciplined and prone to making up policy on the hoof.
(19) If impulse control is a key marker of success, for instance, then there is an obvious and ugly implication that other groups are simply undisciplined.
(20) And this is strange, because I am a really, really undisciplined person.