Sentences with phrase «vomitoriums in»

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In ancient Rome, the architectural feature called a vomitorium was an entranceway for a stadium, not a room used for purging.

In one passage, he wrote of slaves cleaning up the vomit of drunks at banquets, and in his Letter to Helvia, he summarized the vomitorium idea succinctly but metaphorically, referring to what he saw as the excesses of Rome: «They vomit so they may eat, and eat so that they may vomit.&raquIn one passage, he wrote of slaves cleaning up the vomit of drunks at banquets, and in his Letter to Helvia, he summarized the vomitorium idea succinctly but metaphorically, referring to what he saw as the excesses of Rome: «They vomit so they may eat, and eat so that they may vomit.&raquin his Letter to Helvia, he summarized the vomitorium idea succinctly but metaphorically, referring to what he saw as the excesses of Rome: «They vomit so they may eat, and eat so that they may vomit.»

Suzanne Collins» «The Hunger Games» series, for example, alludes to vomitoriums when the lavish inhabitants of the Capitol — all with Latin names like Flavia and Octavia — imbibe a drink to make them vomit at parties so they can gorge themselves on more calories than citizens in the surrounding districts would see in months.

Writer Aldous Huxley was similarly inspired, and wrote of vomitoriums as literal places to vomit in his 1923 novel «Antic Hay.»

To Romans, vomitoriums were the entrances / exits in stadiums or theaters, so dubbed by a fifth - century writer because of the way they'd spew crowds out into the streets.

Thanks to some mistranslated Latin, generations of schoolchildren were brought up to believe that ancient Roman households contained a special room called a vomitorium, in which feasting nobles could purge themselves of the night's dinner and drinks, then go back to the table and help themselves to some more.

Thanks to some mistranslated Latin, generations of schoolchildren were brought up to believe that ancient Roman households contained a special room called a vomitorium, in which feasting nobles could purge themselves of the night's dinner and drinks, then go back to the table and -LSB-...]

The poshest block in Chelsea has more than enough of just that, as with the slashed canvas of Lucio Fontana and Sterling Ruby's ceramic vomitorium a month before.

In the free time I could muster in that period I began driving from our home in Santa Clara, the heart of the Silicon Valley, 45 miles over the mountains to a unique ocean shore phenomenon I discovered and named Neptune's Vomitorium, where periodically, but persistently, large quantities of non-buoyant marine debris (for which I coined the more accessible word «sinksam») are ejected onto the beach in a small hidden covIn the free time I could muster in that period I began driving from our home in Santa Clara, the heart of the Silicon Valley, 45 miles over the mountains to a unique ocean shore phenomenon I discovered and named Neptune's Vomitorium, where periodically, but persistently, large quantities of non-buoyant marine debris (for which I coined the more accessible word «sinksam») are ejected onto the beach in a small hidden covin that period I began driving from our home in Santa Clara, the heart of the Silicon Valley, 45 miles over the mountains to a unique ocean shore phenomenon I discovered and named Neptune's Vomitorium, where periodically, but persistently, large quantities of non-buoyant marine debris (for which I coined the more accessible word «sinksam») are ejected onto the beach in a small hidden covin Santa Clara, the heart of the Silicon Valley, 45 miles over the mountains to a unique ocean shore phenomenon I discovered and named Neptune's Vomitorium, where periodically, but persistently, large quantities of non-buoyant marine debris (for which I coined the more accessible word «sinksam») are ejected onto the beach in a small hidden covin a small hidden cove.