bacchanale

• “I expected DC Beer Week to be a bacchanale, but it turned out to be more of a wedding ceremony, celebrating one of the hot trends in craft brewing: the marriage of American hops and Belgian yeast.”

  The Washington Post: Beer: A week to remember

• “The handling of scale is masterly: a lovers 'chase can expand into a ferocious group bacchanale in a second; a stageful of violent emotion can be dissipated with a single dancer's shrug.”

  The Guardian: Pina Bausch's Tanztheater Wuppertal: Agua

• “At the end, we didn't quite have a full-on bacchanale, but we had a nice pizza party before everyone had to drive home.”

  Woodstock 5: Putting It All Together

• “Once upon a time I would have at least given passing consideration to joining in this ridiculous bacchanale.”

  June 2nd, 2008

• “For the “rugissements et bondissements, bacchanale et saturnale, galop infernal, ronde du sabbat tout le tremblement,” these words give a most clear, untranslatable idea of the Carnival ball.”

  The Paris Sketch Book

• “It will be as the lives of the Romans in Greece -- a bacchanale of peculiar formalities.”

  Clair de Lune A Play in Two Acts and Six Scenes

• “Wherein we catch, like a bacchanale through thunder,”

  Captain Craig: II. III. Captain Craig, Etc

• “For the "rugissements et bondissements, bacchanale et saturnale, galop infernal, ronde du sabbat tout le tremblement," these words give a most clear, untranslatable idea of the Carnival ball.”

  The Paris Sketch Book

• “This violent bacchanale continues for a full 12 minutes - pushing way beyond the bounds of comedy and into the territory of serious alarm.”

  The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed

• “When she discovers a "drunk-ass lesbian" (Bobbi Starr) passed out on her lawn after yet another vagitarian bacchanale, Ireland takes matters in her own hands and starts a petition among proper neighborhood ladies to oust them.”

  Fleshbot

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