dionysian

• Then one dionysian night, after much drinking, they decide to make the most profound art-porn ever, straight dudes straight-balling -- and what follows is them trying not to pussy out. —  Seattlest
• And on the other hand, one sees a complex of social and economic conditions which worked in countless irresistible ways against the rise of that dionysian spirit, that joyful acquiescence in life, that philosophy of the _Ja-sager_, which offers to Puritanism, today as in times past, its chief and perhaps only effective antagonism. —  A Book of Prefaces
• And yet, there is still the lure of the dionysian, the abyss of the FA cup, the beautifully empty myth of the impossible underdog - a myth that every fan clings too as if it were a Pagan Goddess ... "it's only 11 vs 11. —  An Idiot's Guide to Dreaming

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