;Posted on 08/29/2017 8:53:09 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell
;In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
CORYBANTIC (kor-i-BAN-tik)
adjective
Wild; frenzied; uncontrolled.
An eponymn named for Corybant, an ancient priest of Phrygian goddess Cybele, who performed wild ecstatic dances in her worship.
"The radio is nothing but a conduit through which pre-fabricated din can flow into our homes. And this din goes far deeper, of course, than the eardrums. It penetrates the mind, filling it with a babble of distractions, blasts of corybantic or sentimental music, continually repeated doses of drama that bring no catharsis, but usually create a craving for daily or even hourly emotional enemas." Aldous Huxley; On Silence; 1946.
This beautiful word came up in an FR post today and was recommended by a reader.
Sounds like fun. There are all sorts of uses. The asinine antics of the MSM are first in line.
Criticizing the FLOTUS for wearing heels in the WH as she embarked to flooded Houston were she disembarked in sensible sneakers is a perfect illustration of a corybantic columnist searching frantically for justification for his/her insane NeverTrumpism.
Enjoy!
A Cory Booker presidency would knock me for a corybantic loop.
The antifa is nothing but a pre-fabricated communist agitprop and din that flows into our homes via the MSM. And this din goes far deeper, of course, than the eardrums. It penetrates the mind, filling it with a babble of distractions, blasts of corybantic blather, continually disrupting our once patriotic views of our cherished nation.
The Antifa thug was much less corybantic after taking a pepper ball to the groin.
Careful! They might fly into corybantic rage:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3581704/posts
The Phrygian Mode, with its minor second right at the beginning of the Scale, has a rather exotic and corybantic sound to it that lends itself to mystical rock anthem guitar solos.
My, you sure have a way with words!
CA....
Using a word like that makes me feel like William F. Buckley, Jr.
The democrats now getting frantic
As ANTIFA goes wild, corybantic
Even WaPo and Newsweek
Have decided to speak
Out against them; who’s next—The Atllantic?
Mobs of corybantic AntiFa terrorists are a common feature of urban life, especially in leftist enclaves like Berkeley!!!!
Antifa is many things, all Democrat
Feral, wild, corybantic scurrying rat
Beating up on old men
Put them in the pen
Before we get hit with a baseball bat.
...sort of
The Kerryfrantic news media came close to giving us another democrat president, and Bush came close to giving it to them.
A little tune is in order, as illustrative of our WFTD.
As well you should. The Master philologian would have reveled in WFTD.
The tide may yet turn and drown the antiTrumpers in their own bile. A corybantic time will be ad by all.
He was. Wasn’t he!
“MonkeyView??” Oh well. Happy to have it back.
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