corybantic
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Grocer's apostrophes are scribbled out, misspellings fixed, and good lord the corybantic orgy of less/fewer corrections.
From The Guardian • Mar. 4, 2013
The writhings and stomping of Marat/Sade's insane have inspired a corybantic kind of choreography in which the dancers become as hopelessly intertwined as the Laoco�n family.
From Time Magazine Archive
From his life with his mother he would seem to have gotten not only an abiding detestation for the beautiful per se, the noble emotion nobly expressed, but also his almost corybantic intelligence.
From Time Magazine Archive
Small boys, who, attracted by his corybantic entrance, had come to the doors of their cubicles to see what the matter was, regarded him furtively with looks of mingled fear and amusement.
From "Pip" A Romance of Youth by Hay, Ian
Professor Huxley, in one of his clever phrases, called the Salvation Army "corybantic Christianity."
From Heretics by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
