How to Use carnivalesque in a Sentence

carnivalesque

adjective

• Most of the time, there was a warm, carnivalesque atmosphere, but a crowd’s mood can also change at the speed of light.
  — Laura Cappelle, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2023
• Their world seems like our own but then, when a dormouse is offered as a snack, becomes almost carnivalesque.
  — James Romm, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2021
• His delight in all things carnal and carnivalesque flows as freely as ever.
  — Justin Chang, chicagotribune.com, 27 July 2017
• In the moments after a president gives the State of the Union, Statuary Hall becomes a carnivalesque madhouse.
  — Nash Jenkins, Time, 31 Jan. 2018
• Trump's Senate impeachment trial will live up to the carnivalesque expectations that some of us had for it.
  — Matthew Walther, TheWeek, 17 Jan. 2020
• But fans from the other 28 countries, such as Axel, have stayed on long after their team’s defeat, to soak up the carnivalesque atmosphere and maximize time with newfound loves.
  — Amie Ferris-Rotman, Washington Post, 9 July 2018
• Oh, and who can forget the balloons, birthday cake, a bounce house, live music, Folklorico Dancers and story time at this carnivalesque gathering fit for an entire state.
  — The Denver Channel, The Know, 1 Aug. 2019
• Along with New York-style slices, the pizzeria will boast a menu of 10 eye-popping pies and six hoagies, served alongside Brgr Stop’s usual menu of carnivalesque hamburgers, boozy milkshakes and root-beer-sriracha chicken wings.
  — Phillip Valys, sun-sentinel.com, 5 Aug. 2020
• Ally’s sightings of gruesome clowns around town—a reference to the rash of creepy carnivalesque encounters around North America last year—provides one of the big political metaphors of the show.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2017
• These early novels could be carnivalesque in their humor.
  — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 13 June 2023
• Capping weeks of nationwide strikes, protests and carnivalesque street parties, parliament voted 59 to 42 in favor of Pashinyan.
  — Washington Post, 12 May 2018
• Children, groups of friends, couples, and elderly people perch on the moon’s hook, beaming into the camera, acting out a carnivalesque prefiguration of the events of 1969.
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 10 July 2019
• Capping weeks of nationwide strikes, protests, and carnivalesque street parties, Parliament voted 59 to 42 in favor of Pashinyan.
  — Washington Post, BostonGlobe.com, 8 May 2018
• Surely even medieval peasants sometimes stared into the middle distance and sighed over their barley pottage, longing for the next village fête day and a bit of carnivalesque mayhem.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2020
• Mr Trump’s carnivalesque approach to the presidency has made life hard for America’s allies, but his first year in office has not brought forth anything like the full horrors that some predicted.
  — The Economist, 25 Jan. 2018
• Cairo is a place of carnivalesque crowds but also the utter stasis of cafés, where the unemployed and redundant intellectuals loiter.
  — Ange Mlinko, The New York Review of Books, 1 Dec. 2022
• Presented using carnivalesque imagery, its middle panel is a self-portrait that conveys the artist’s guilt about teaching within a system that buries students in debt.
  — Troy Reimink, Detroit Free Press, 17 Sep. 2017
• The result is part carnivalesque caricature and part generic smiley face.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2023
• The band, which is made of immigrants from Colombia, fuses cumbia, psychedelic rock, afrobeat, dub, parade music, hip-hop, soul and more, making energetic dance music that is steeped in a carnivalesque activist spirit.
  — John Adamian, courant.com, 14 June 2019
• With his bullying serve, haymaker forehand and knack for carnivalesque shots, Kyrgios is wildly entertaining to watch.
  — Michael Steinberger, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2016
• His reporting causes thousands of people to gather at the mountain Minosa is buried under, creating a carnivalesque atmosphere.
  — Steve Larkin, The Week, 1 Apr. 2022
• The result is a group of carnivalesque monsters clustered, bizarre and monumental, in an otherwise typically Tuscan landscape.
  — Lauren Elkin, Travel + Leisure, 21 Mar. 2023
• Eisenman has lately funneled much of her perversity into raucous sculptures that answer exactly to the tenor of our ghoulish, carnivalesque politics.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2020
• Just as societies need carnivalesque holidays like Mardi Gras to remain healthy, so music requires regular infusions of Dionysian eroticism and violence.
  — Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2019
• The most interesting Japanese photographers, though, were anxious and angry; their moments were mostly indecisive, and their carnivalesque characters, A-bomb victims, gutter trash, and shocks of light seemed outlandish if not perverse.
  — Leo Rubinfien, The New York Review of Books, 11 Feb. 2021
• There had been a few days of expert testimony, about the conservation of linear momentum and retrograde extrapolation of blood alcohol content, which had dampened the overall carnivalesque mood.
  — Kevin Conley, Town & Country, 24 Dec. 2012
• The songs had common ingredients—two highly distinctive singers, textural guitar influenced by folk and jazz and flamenco, carnivalesque keyboard and classical woodwinds—but no common formula.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2017
• The atmosphere was celebratory, even carnivalesque, perhaps like a tailgate party preceding an American football game.
  — Gregory Starrett, The Conversation, 6 Sep. 2022

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