Example sentences for: dionysian

How can you use “dionysian” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The Apollonian spirit is one of measure, reason, and control; the Dionysian is one of abandon, irrationality, and ecstatic release.

  • That Matisse is essentially an Apollonian artist and Picasso a Dionysian is evident even from the backhanded compliments they paid each other.

  • The Dionysian comes from Dionysius, the god of wine and fertility, who was worshipped with drunken orgies in the woods at which nonparticipants were ripped to pieces.

  • In all of them, scenes of repressive formality (hoary English actors sipping sherry in drawing rooms) would be shattered by scenes of Dionysian release (Dracula or some other fanged entity swooping down in an animalistic frenzy), and an aristocratic figure of both science and Christian faith--usually the crisply self-satisfied Peter Cushing--would show up to lecture the frightened villagers and pound a stake through the heaving bosom of some temptress.

  • Dionysian is limited as a means of ordering the world.


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