"The Goon Show," Monty Python, "Little Britain": these entertainments all imbibed deeply from the same spiked, intoxicating well that makes "Two Guvnors" such a happy drunk.
In 1967 he made his first record, Cante Flamenco (Flamenco Songs), with the guitarist Félix de Utrera, followed by Cantes Antiguos del Flamenco (Ancient Flamenco Songs), which showed how deeply he had imbibed the history and sources of his music.
Tony Blair added his characteristic descant, adding "We have imbibed deeply of the Olympic spirit … in throwing timidity to the winds we have rediscovered a spirit that is our own".
Imbibing deeply from the fount of free agency after the lockout ended, the Eagles signed 14 new players.
Organized labor wants the Keystone pipeline built; Steyer, who imbibes deeply the green Kool Aid, is adamantly against Keystone.
The trouble is that we tend to think of things as being non-political only because we have imbibed a particular set of values so deeply it does not occur to us to question them.
Most engaging is the portrait of Augustine's complex relationship with his lively, wine-drinking, social-striving mother, Monnica, from whom he "imbibed the name of Christ," and learned to "retain it deeply within".
Joan's mother - whom she is at pains to say she loved very deeply and who, in her turn, doted upon Joan - had somehow imbibed King's injunctions about rigorous feeding times and potty training and the importance of ignoring crying infants because they only want attention and so on.
Just as Nietzsche drank deeply of Biblical poetry before doing away with God, so Pol Pot, a shaven-headed monk for many years, imbibed Buddhist poetry in the verses of religious literature and then executed Buddha.
