Voorbeelden van orgiastic

• The more he lets off steam in orgiastic behaviour, the more violent his feelings of self-denunciation and self-contempt become afterwards.

• This practice must have symbolised a certain contact with chthonian powers, which gave rise to orgiastic dreams of impregnation.

• A corollary of this argument is that the orgiastic rites did not in fact occur but were false beliefs, in most cases genuinely held by the persecutors.

• Therefore, no matter how attached they are to each other, it is nevertheless important to appear to be completely self-controlled and exempt from the orgiastic indulgence of their polygynist alter-egos.

• However, his advocacy is of a somewhat orgiastic kind.

• Second, stories of the sabbat had prurient and orgiastic elements, which caused these stories to be told and retold.

• Philopator was devoted to orgiastic religions and to literature.

• The "thiasi" and "orgeones" clubs were often connected with deities foreign to the area and whose rites were of an orgiastic nature.