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But deeper in, percussion livens up under orgiastic shrieks and a cameo on guitar from Adam Granduciel of the War on Drugs.—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 3 June 2025 Things get even more heated when the characters burst into a series of sweltering original songs at the Juke, creating an orgiastic — even religious — fever strong enough to rip the space-time continuum apart at the seams.—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 10 Apr. 2025 The Danish composer’s lyrics suggest a singularity between nature and the human body, painted in such orgiastic imagery as to make In Utero seem modest.—Pitchfork, 1 Oct. 2024 This icky masterwork of ’80s horror is best known for introducing us to the Cenobites, the collective of sadomasochistic priests from a Lovecraftian dimension of orgiastic torment, and whose flesh has been twisted, penetrated, and seared to extremes.—Rory Doherty, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for orgiastic
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Etymology
Greek orgiastikos, from orgiazein to celebrate orgies, from orgia
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