Word: debauchedly
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...chain, as it were. Why marriage? What is marriage but a rationalization of humanity's baser instincts? This is a realization that obviously bothers Israel, and that is why his bachelor party is fueled by an almost manic fear of the next day's ceremonies. The Renoiresque debauch operates almost as a tragic catharsis, an the participants will the demonic spirits that torment them to take flight and be gone...
...philandering, drug-taking, crony-swindling rat of a ulm director comes back to Brooklyn for the funeral of his unbeloved mother and sets out on a three-day debauch that ends in the psychosomatic equivalent of a heart attack. That is not, perhaps, the stuff of box-office comedy, and, as a portrait of Hollywood, it seems less satire than neorealism. Yet by the final fadeout, Josh Greenfeld's novel turns out to be both uproariously funny and bitter as wormwood...
...slowly made our way to the cars, spectators of both sides recounted tales of unsurpassed debauch, of unrivaled craziness, and bragged of unmatched coolness...
...food, blankets, precious metals and cacao beans (for use as money). In a bloody annual ritual known as the Raising of Banners, they appeased their chief deity Huitzilopochtli, the war god, by killing their prisoners as well as slaves especially purchased for sacrifice by Aztec merchants. In one recorded debauch, some 20,000 victims were allegedly delivered to the god. Without such human offerings, the Aztecs were convinced, the world would...
...drinks. Sutherland announces his death sentence to him in the form of a ponderous poem, and pumps ineffective bullets into his bloated body. Mooney drags out his agony in a macabre parody of the death of some Roman emperor, slain at the entrance of his palace after a debauch, blood dripping down the staircase and all. It's a great scene, but quite detached from the rest of the play. At its end Sutherland unconvincingly and abruptly dies, Richardson struts forward, and the curtain drops...