Sentence examples for dipsomaniac from inspiring English sources

In a disproportionately large number of what could be termed "social catastrophes", alcohol featured hugely – squatting right at the centre of the mayhem in the manner of a smirking dipsomaniac goblin.

It could be a lot worse, John – you could have a dipsomaniac angst rocker on your case There's more to yodelling than a lonely goatherd A model looker with friends in hyped places (Mumford and Sons, Noah and the Whale), Pownall has everything going for him but his music.

Will a week in an internet-free zone lead to the most serious case of withdrawal symptoms since Absolutely Fabulous's resident dipsomaniac, Patsy, desperately tried to give up drinking, an experience she later called "the worst eight hours of my life"?

There are modish clichés in the libretto, from the reclusive computer programmer to the dipsomaniac divorcee whose Eastern European cleaner accidentally bins a work of contemporary art.

Then there is Neville's dipsomaniac sister, Phyllis Jenna Russelll, best known in musicals, here blooming unexpectedly), making mayhem in the kitchen, and her husband Bernard, a failed doctor and amateur puppeteer played with superb edge and elegance by Mark Gatiss.

Following the last hours in the life of a British dipsomaniac, "Under the Volcano" embraces everything from Dante to Freud to the cabala.

Some people are dipsomaniacs,.

On the one hand you have the so-called populist writers (crudely a code for fascists, yokels, dipsomaniacs), on the other the urbanist writers (crudely a code for communists, Jews, dipsomaniacs), although some figures managed to hang out in both camps.

Before anyone starts worrying about crowds of dipsomaniacs descending on the NHS, drunkenly demanding new livers to ruin, the pilot scheme aims to involve 20 patients, who may take up to two years to recruit.

Then there's the popular idea that the country's females have gone to the bad, and we're all chardonnay-sozzled dipsomaniacs, drinking men under the table.

When the curtain rises, he's the only patron who's even half awake at Harry's, which is populated by the lowest of the low — dipsomaniacs, they used to be called.