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(Side note: "dipsomania " sounds oddly lighthearted in our day and age, doesn't it? As if compulsive drinking were just a dippy craze.
Stephen Spender felt compelled to defend "Under the Volcano" against the charge that it's merely a book about a lush: At the outset here, I should dispose of what may seem to some readers a serious objection to this novel: the Consul's dipsomania.
In non-musical terms, too, he sits in the centre of a singular Venn diagram: Marxism, paraplegia, alcoholism (or, as he prefers, dipsomania – though he's been sober for the best part of a decade) and the surrealist pseudoscience of 'pataphysics make up just some of the interlocking circles.
It's here that Knausgaard relates the slow slide of his father into full-blown suicidal dipsomania , Karl Ove's fractious relationship with literary success, his intense self-doubt and sometimes staggering arrogance.
Throw in Clough's own worsening dipsomania and that Saturday at Wembley assumes the dimensions of a curse.
By Ligaya Mishan September 2, 2009 Stephen Spender felt compelled to defend "Under the Volcano" against the charge that it's merely a book about a lush: At the outset here, I should dispose of what may seem to some readers a serious objection to this novel: the Consul's dipsomania.
It was only after he scraped away subplots, like the ones about a Dean Martin-like performer's dipsomania and a woman with an oversized vagina, that he realized he could extract a "classical" story about an aging Mob king, Don Vito Corleone, and his potential heirs the hotheaded Sonny, the emotionally fragile Fredo, and the thoughtful, rebellious Michael.
By the time Prince Dipendra had been enrolled at Eton and nicknamed "Dippy" -- apparently as much for his dipsomania as for his name -- Mr. Gregson suggests that the royal palace had become a suffocating environment for a young man with worldly ambitions.
Those influences included careful scrutiny of "The Varieties of Religious Experience," by William James, who remarked that "the only cure for dipsomania is religiomania"; Swedenborgian principles of spiritual understanding as a series of steps; and grass-roots democracy based on the cooperative individualism manifest in the village charter of his native East Dorset.
At the time, it was a first when he wrote this punch line to his review of Billy Wilder's sodden saga about dipsomania , "The Lost Weekend": "I undershtand that liquor interesh: innerish: intereshtsh are rather worried about thish film.
While we cannot ignore the tragic leitmotif of dipsomania and early death, to many people the art he created marks him perhaps Russia's greatest national composer.
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The word "dipsomania " functions as a noun , specifically denoting a type of alcohol addiction. As confirmed by Ludwig, it describes an obsessive, periodic craving for alcohol. Examples show it used to describe characters' struggles or historical figures' conditions.
Expression frequency: Common
