Sentences with word «bacchanalia»

Bacchanalia is an archaic term that refers to a wild and drunken celebration, often associated with excessive behavior and debauchery. Full definition
Located just a few blocks from the gypsies and fortune tellers who inhabit Jackson Square and a lifetime removed from the non-stop bacchanalia of Bourbon Street, Crescent City Books is of a piece of the Quarter and New Orleans itself.
While initial reports suggested that Martin Scorsese's three - hour bacchanalia about excess in the financial industry might enter the race and become an instant juggernaut, it hasn't happened that way.
While practicing Christians may be justifiably disappointed in a sterilized «happy holidays» from their grocer, even this greeting extends something beyond the all - too - human midwinter bacchanalia historically provided by Saturnalia and the Mithraic birth, or today by New Year's Eve.
Tune In The typical family holiday spread — your basic bacchanalia of fat and carbs — inspires fear and longing in equal measure.
I remember having just... such an embarrassingly emotional reaction to Todd Phillips» bacchanalia Project X that I felt the need to go and write my thoughts down.
Finalists: the lumpy folksy irritable denizens of Nebraska and the committed bacchanalia of Wolf of Wall Street Semi-Finalists: August: Osage County, The Bling Ring, The East, Inside Llewyn Davis and The Past
The Wolf of Wall Street 2013, 180 minutes, R / Director: Martin Scorsese / Writers: Terence Winter, Jordan Belfort / Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie Buy It: Blu - ray Combo • DVD • Instant Video Martin Scorsese's financial industry bacchanalia is an exercise in excess that wouldn't be as potent in any other director's hands.
But for those who are fans of good comedy, seeing this one through just may make you nostalgic for the good old days of a John Cusack - led bubbly - tub bacchanalia.
We're introduced to wild - child Mike (Adam DeVine, Workaholics) and respectable Dave (Zac Efron) through an opening - credits bacchanalia through several family weddings.
Such virtuosic spatial clarification becomes a key visual gesture in the film, which goes on to aerially trace the cornfields of Cayden's surrogate home, the recurring locations in the off - the - grid town, and the forest lair where a squad of malicious werewolves host their man - eating bacchanalias.
He takes the notions of brotherhood and bacchanalia entirely too seriously.
And if higher education is, as Wolfe implies, little more than an expensive setting for youthful bacchanalia, then we should be very worried.
But, adults can also let loose, and indulge in the (alcoholic) beverage bacchanalia that is Epcot.
In Jessica Craig - Martin's photography, floral patterns illuminate the remains of brash bacchanalia.
Prone to a professional bacchanalia, they value a fine meal much like fine art, and enjoy doing deals over lunch and dinner.
Immersing themselves in full throttle bacchanalia, Toth's line - based figures reenact contemporary versions of initiation rites long since abandoned.
He is also known for throwing parties; on April 20, 2013 he turned MOCA's annual gala into a weed - themed bacchanalia, which raised over two million dollars.
The range of reactions to GeekLawyer's blog bacchanalia led Mystal to ask, What is the point of legal blogging anyway?
The Overnight, an uproarious envelope - pusher that premièred at Sundance 2015, manages to wreak havoc with just two couples, as an intimate dinner party — initially conceived as a playdate for their kids — metamorphoses from friendly evening chit - chat into bizarre wee - hours bacchanalia.
As the first weekend of Sundance comes to an end, FC Editor - in - Chief Nicolas Rapold and Eric Hynes, FC contributor and Curator of Film at Museum of the Moving Image, discuss the white privilege and bacchanalia of Sebastián Silva's disorienting Tyrel, Ethan Hawke's biopic of heavy - drinking country singer / songwriter Blaze Foley, Gustav Möller's gimmicky debut thriller The Guilty, and the joyousness and charm of Sandi Tan's first - person Singapore - set documentary Shirkers.
There was a time when the festival was cringingly self - congratulatory, a bacchanalia where overfed creative boffins went to collect trophies and escalate salaries.
At about $ 15 a bottle plus shipping (about $ 7), Vesta will be a great fall gift for balloonists and Bacchanalias.
The circular beds are gone, and nobody stalks the halls in silk pajamas anymore, but the cavernous bar, dark and oppressive, still stands as a shrine to the black arts of bacchanalia.
He tied for second at the Tour Championship, then wore a kilt and a wig in the bacchanalia of another European Ryder Cup victory.
Modern artist Damien Hirst, open - mouthed in a blurred Edvard Munch - style scream; pop artist Andy Warhol, mouth languidly open, dark eyes right up near the lens; Meryl Streep mussing her hair; David Bowie and Catherine Deneuve angelic and near - identical; a pensive Bob Dylan; Ralph Fiennes with a skull, both looking sleepy; Jack Nicholson looking aggressively cheeky; a young Mick Jagger with his pillowy lips slightly parted... It's a bacchanalia in black and white.
It's $ 150 million worth of large - scale battles, bacchanalia and overwrought writing — particularly in its rendition of Alexander (Colin Farrell) as a mama - whipped, militarily gifted but emotionally unstable conqueror.
But Lawrence improves on the first film's chintzy, rather benign idea of the bacchanalia that is Panem's capital city (no atrocious green screens here).
After sowing chaos across the city, the conspirators hide in a chic department store, where the luxurious merchandise gets the better of them, and a foolhardy invitation extended to two street people to join in the bacchanalia triggers the terrorists» doom.
After partaking in one of Dusan's bacchanalias, Paul meets Ngoc Lan Tran (Hong Chau, who also appeared in Inherent Vice), a Vietnamese environmental and political activist who was shrunk against her will and lost her leg, and who now supports herself as a maid.
Now, however, his rehabilitation has picked up speed with an American re-issue (prior to a spiffy DVD release) of Cruising, his infamous 1980 account of a serial killer at large in the bacchanalia of the New York gay scene in the last moments before the death march of Aids - the attendant commentary having been rounded up by David Hudson's Green Cine Daily and, a few days further back, the IFC Blog.
Gatsby's parties are depicted with the kind of circus - like insanity of modern club culture (combined with the bacchanalia of the Moulin Rouge in his prior film), yet the later parts of the film slow down tremendously to allow the characters and scenes time to breathe.
The opening montage of bacchanalia, shows them pulling out every trick in the book and having a great time.
From visionary provocateur Harmony Korine comes a bold new vision of the seasonal American ritual known as spring break - the bacchanalia of bikinis, beach parties and beer bongs that draws hordes of college students to the Florida coast and elsewhere each year.
- Publishers Weekly «From abortion to alcoholism, bankruptcy to bacchanalia, Barnhardt's satirical scorching of southern culture comes in second only to Sherman's fiery march.»
The bacchanalia took place in a Budapest spa and catered for all tastes of their particularly successful salesmen.
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