Sentences with phrase «wild celebrations which»

On the streets, the news that his long and often brutal leadership was over sparked wild celebrations which lasted late into the night, with crowds dancing and cheering ecstatically amid a cacophony of car horns.

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It was performed during the festival of Dionysus, which was a fertility festival, of course, but only because it was also an apotropaic celebration of delirium and death: the Dionysia was a sacred negotiation with the wild, antinomian cruelty of the god whose violent orgiastic cult had once, so it was believed, gravely imperiled the city; and the hope that prompted the feast was that, if this devastating force could be contained within bright Apollonian forms and propitiated through a ritual carnival of controlled disorder, the polis could survive for another year, its precarious peace intact.
Özil sent in a corner, it pinged around a bit, Giroud did well to keep it alive and Koscielny was Johnny on the spot to tap it home which produced a huge sigh of relief around the ground rather than wild celebrations.
His wild celebrations bought him a yellow card as well, which is kind of a shame.
The Old School Kung Fu Fest, a four - day celebration of the rarest, wildest, and most incredible martial arts and action cinema from the «60s, «70s and «80s is back at the Anthology Film Archives for its 5th edition, which is dedicated to the deadliest fighter of them all... the ninja!
One of 2017's best games gets a new trailer in celebration of Horizon: Zero Dawn - Complete Edition, which collects the main game and The Frozen Wilds.
Highlights of the exhibition include Drawings, which reveal the artist's exuberant hand; Baskets, a series which recently celebrated 40 years; delicate and fluid Seaforms; the richly - colored and contrasting hues of Macchia; Venetians, which were inspired by Art Deco Venetian vases; Ikebana, inspired by the Japanese art of flower arrangement; Persians, a celebration of wild asymmetry and colour; and Chandeliers, which are comprised of hundreds of blown glass forms.
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