Sentences with word «bacchanal»

To keep your book club on task, and to avoid it devolving into some kind of sycophantic bacchanal of people who buy sweaters on GILT group, try using discussion topics.

LAS VEGAS (July 30, 2015)-- Las Vegas» top buffet, Bacchanal Buffet at Caesars Palace, is now offering guests even more opportunities to elevate their buffet experience with the addition of whole market - fresh fish, lobster and caviar to the more than 500 dish deep menu.

Sasanian Imperial Caviar can also be purchased at Bacchanal for an additional $ 150.

monitors the opinions of select cast and crew on the bachelor party ritual and records their individual reactions to Lennon's tale of a 5 - day bacchanal in Amsterdam.

The Buzz: Rarely does a buffet make major news on the Strip, but the new Bacchanal buffet lives up to its name, with more than 500 dishes spanning the world.

That may bug doc purists, but it's clearly a boon to whoever edited the film's trailer; without the need to gussy up or hide some of the drier conventions of the medium — talking heads, archival footage, charts or graphs — they just string together the film's numerous bacchanals into a pulsing, celebratory montage.

The 85 - acre resort offers 25 diverse dining options including the award - winning Bacchanal Buffet, as well as celebrity chef - branded restaurants by Gordon Ramsay, Bobby Flay, Nobu Matsuhisa, Guy Savoy, Searsucker Las Vegas, and the highly - anticipated debut of MR CHOW.

The annual bacchanal of self - importance and self - righteous celebration that is the White House Correspondents Association Dinner should have been laid to rest years ago.

The event was an after - party, a happy - hour bacchanal for the hundreds of guests who had come for Vice's annual presentation to advertisers and agencies that afternoon, part of the annual frenzy for ad dollars called the Digital Content NewFronts.

Intending to make one last grand duck - out before graduation, Ferris calls in sick, «borrows» a Ferrari, and embarks on a one - day bacchanal through the streets of Chicago.

Using Renaissance and Baroque depictions of bacchanals as her jumping - off point, Ansel has reinterpreted master works of art (by Titian and Bellini) through the lens of abstraction.

This is less a war film than a collegiate coming - of - age piece — not so much McInerney, I guess, as Bret Easton Ellis: misbehaviour amongst the young and the beautiful, with sniper rifles replacing bongs, the Marine crest replacing some Fraternity logo, and the various drunken bacchanals transplanted intact.

Van Bebber rubs the viewer's nose in all manner of degradation, from group orgies to performance art bacchanals, and somewhere along the way it stops being fun for the kids (and the spectator).

Curious about how this lobster bacchanal began?

For yet more Caribbean charm, visit Bacchanals bar and bistro on the beach which offers light bites for lunch as well as wonderful local cuisine at night, so you can dine out beneath the stars.

On my trip to New Orleans, my friend and I ate at this awesome wine bar called Bacchanal by the Bywater.

If you squinted, it could have been five or six years ago, when every tournament weekend was complemented by a corporate bacchanal and there seemed no limit to professional golf's popularity and revenue.

If everyone in your social group lives in a big house and drives a Range Rover, and you live in a two - bedroom and drive a»97 Camry, I imagine you get a lot of strange looks and miss out on invites to champagne - soaked bacchanals.

«Ah,... so do you have mighty bacchanals in her honor?

The price for the nation's prolonged bacchanal has been high, especially for women and children.

I was at the South Beach Wine and Food Festival last weekend and we have the Boca Bacchanal coming up next week!

The little inn on Pilmour Place, a mid-iron from the Old Course, hosts a weekly bacchanal at which locals outnumber tourists 10 to 1.

Others will be licentious bacchanals involving mismatched couples making bad decisions on piles of guests» coats.

The giant water bug, or Lethocerus indicus, a three - inch - long South Asian insect that looks uncannily like a local cockroach, is just one of the items on the menu of this bug - eating bacchanal.

A couple of neoprene looks — a sloped shoulder graphic sweatshirt and a paneled short sleeve shift dress — literally channel Brazil's famous bacchanal: The purple - hued abstract print panels on the pieces are actually digitized images of an archival 1960s photo taken by an American tourist in Brazil during carnival.

But only one major - studio film of the modern era, Richard Fleischer's notorious 1975 Mandingo, dared to meet slavery on its own terms — a grind house bacchanal of sadism, incest, and miscegenation, capped by an unforgettable finale in which the eponymous bare - knuckle fighter is boiled alive by his master in a cauldron.

Fonda can't do much with the character, an aggregation of cliches: Grace wears baggy print dresses, grows pot in her basement, drives a Volkswagen Beetle, presides over monthly bacchanals where women worship the full moon, and says things like, «Then Hendrix comes onstage to play, and my water breaks!»

Case in point: A catered bacchanal in a palatial Tuscan setting, with mimes dancing through the formal gardens, vivid frescoes on the walls and mysterious goings - on in the hedges.

There's a makeover, of course (got ta get Deanna into skinny denim even though, ironically, mom jeans are on trend), plus an accidental drug bacchanal and a slow - motion destruction spree — the holy trinity of modern humor.

A washed - up soap - opera actor who acts like a castaway from a Mike Judge cartoon, Church expects a frat - guy bacchanal before he gets married the following weekend.

We watch, in a fast - paced montage, as a teenage King and his four friends stumble from pub to pub, living it up in one glorious bacchanal that — for King — never properly ended.

Because neither couple wants to be left alone with an inconvenient truth (adultery, the discovery of a dead body), their strained soiree soon devolves into a Felliniesque bacchanal, complete with clown paint, that teases the possibility of a partner swap.

Greed is better than good to the abhorrent Wall Street types populating Martin Scorsese's bitter - pill bacchanal.

Our earliest glimpse of vice detectives Crockett (Colin Farrell) and Tubbs (Foxx) is in just such a strobe - lit box, the two cruising through the insensate bacchanal, meting out violence in short, impersonal bursts and meeting on a rooftop against an impossibly bright, DV panorama to mumble tough words and promises into satellite phones while the rest of the world falls apart.

The lower floors turn into destitute areas of violent crime, and the upper floors become an unceasing bacchanal (There are suggestions of an ancillary group that simply wants to stay out of it and survive, but like everything else here, that possible optimism is underdeveloped).

To that end, where the hell is Richard Linklater's sprawling dude - bro bacchanal Everybody Wants Some, which boasts not just many of the year's best one - liners but also one of its most well - developed cast of characters?

Imagine the self - obsessed bourgeois navel - gazing of Lawrence Kasdan's The Big Chill distorted into a sun - kissed bacchanal.

Dr. Timothy Leary's invitation to turn on, tune in, and drop out never came laced with more barbed spines than when a fireside bacchanal turns into a dog's - blood drinking contest, complete with hallucinations of Charlie - as - Christ sprouting horns as he's tossed onto the pyre.

In - between a myriad of swank parties (one sprawling bacchanal featuring a hodge - podge of Hollywood notables, from Nick Kroll to Joe Mangianello to Fabio to Jocelin Donahue), Rick seems to be on a merry - go - round of trysts with beautiful women (Imogen Poots, Freida Pinto, Teresa Palmer, Natalie Portman, Isabel Lucas) each defining a particular chapter of his odyssey while he slowly meanders into defining the life he actually desires.

A group of 30 - something friends throw an end - of - summer bacchanal.

These get - togethers are gross bacchanals of drinking, drug taking and rowdy horseplay, with interludes of skinny dipping, fishing and rolling in the sand.

Writer - director Patrick Brice alternates outrageous comedy with keen insight and empathy in his tonally balanced film about a dinner party between two couples that turns into an all - night bacchanal.

Read on... Visually inventive director Nicholas Stoller, working with talented newbie screenwriters Andrew J. Cohen and Brendan O'Brien, stages an impressive bacchanal, filled with pranks, debauchery, slapstick violence and repeated jokes about smoking pot and penis size.

Paul becomes friends with an obnoxious neighbor, played by Christoph Waltz as a smilingly self - satisfied Eurotrash entrepreneur who turns his apartment into a destination for druggy bacchanals.

It doesn't go too far in portraying the general bacchanal of collegiate life in the twenty - first century, it never states its politics (it's therefore impossible to locate the Prez (Michael Keaton) as a satirical object), and it doesn't ultimately have anything to say beyond that it's important to eventually cut the apron strings.

Other than documenting this natural schism between suburban squareness and the unhinged bacchanal of fraternity life, «Neighbors» is otherwise low on plot, but the jokes and set pieces are so good that it doesn't really matter.