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
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
No Bacchic revels on Mount Parnassus were ever more corybantic.
From All Around the Moon by Roth, Edward
In the Albert Hall, where he made his début amid scenes of corybantic enthusiasm last week, the diminutive virtuoso was hardly visible to the naked eye.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 29, 1914 by Various
