corybantic
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
Now the tune grows frantic, Now the torches flare— Wild and corybantic Echoes fill the air.
From Challenge by Untermeyer, Louis
Professor Huxley, in one of his clever phrases, called the Salvation Army "corybantic Christianity."
From Heretics by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
