How to Use orgiastic in a Sentence

orgiastic

adjective

• The last part of the suite is an orgiastic dance in 5/4 time.
  — Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 May 2022
• The Commander has brought her to an orgiastic version of The Ritz Carlton.
  — Sarah Bichsel, baltimoresun.com, 2 June 2017
• And as Lloyd points out, the orgiastic bits — which are so intoxicating live — can seem crude.
  — Geoff Dyer, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2017
• The movie is as remarkable for its mise-en-scène as for its druggie, orgiastic content.
  — J. Hoberman, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2017
• The movie was a satire about four men determined to eat themselves to death during an orgiastic villa weekend.
  — Anita Gates, BostonGlobe.com, 18 May 2020
• Vitali also portrayed Red Cloak, the masked leader of the aristocratic, orgiastic cult at the center of the latter film.
  — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 21 Aug. 2022
• Now, the long-running Covid dramedy appears to be nearing its finale, in the form of an orgiastic flurry of vaccine content.
  — New York Times, 27 Apr. 2021
• The Canaanites, with their orgiastic nature-worship . .
  — Benjamin Balint, WSJ, 10 July 2017
• While much of the United States observes, nonplussed, denizens of Washington lose themselves to three days of orgiastic celebration.
  — T.a. Frank, The Hive, 1 Sep. 2017
• Just as Pollock’s drip paintings are material evidence of a Dionysian dance around a canvas spread on the floor, Twombly’s paintings can look like the aftermath of an orgiastic frenzy.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2023
• Many here noted that Mr. Bowie, a global star whose songs about being an outsider and an outcast gave him a particular cult status during the orgiastic, anything-goes 1970s, had touched their lives.
  — Dan Bilefsky and Madeleine Kruhly, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2016
• The video for his first single bears clear evidence of that statement with its bacchanalian orgiastic scenes of a mysterious party.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 11 Oct. 2019
• The orgiastic glee with which protesters tore down, then beat up, a century-old monument to a generic Confederate soldier in Durham, N.C., this week was alarming.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 15 Aug. 2017
• The Hairpin, a feminist blog, first highlighted stock photos featuring women in near-orgiastic delight over bowls of raw veggies back in 2011.
  — Kerry Reid, chicagotribune.com, 22 Mar. 2018
• In Onions’ story a fragile, bedridden young woman starts to hear, at first only faintly, the intoxicating sounds of orgiastic, Dionysian revelry.
  — Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2021
• Particularly striking is the third movement, packed with eerie string glissandos that set off the orgiastic climaxes that follow.
  — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 15 June 2018
• The hotel is outrageously fabulous, decorated in flamboyant 1920s style, with an orgiastic bar mural and themed floors ranging from The Starlets to The Drama.
  — Sophie Dodd, Travel + Leisure, 12 Apr. 2023
• Nino Strachey puts Bloomsbury’s orgiastic side in useful context.
  — Alexander C. Kafka, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2022
• The public faces of the Seven hide orgiastic hedonism, drug addiction, and indiscriminate murder.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2020
• From initial claims of fondling and penetration of the preschoolers by Buckey, the accusations mushroomed to accommodate all seven members of the preschool’s staff, engaged in orgiastic activities with their students.
  — Talia Lavin, The New Republic, 29 Sep. 2020
• Perhaps there’s an intentional element of over-the-top kitsch in the galumphing orgiastic dance that ends Act I, but, if so, James Darrah, who directed the première production, didn’t capitalize on the opportunity.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021
• Anthropology tells us that early agricultural tribes made their women the star actresses in orgiastic fertility rites and that their descendants deified an Earth Mother who was the author of all life.
  — Dorothy Dunbar Bromley, Harper's Magazine, 24 Nov. 2020
• Commercials advertising fast food are orgiastic displays of careless skin contact.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2020
• Expect, by turns, orgiastic, mournful, darkly funny and relentlessly compelling sets.
  — John Wenzel, The Know, 19 Dec. 2019
• This might then leave us with the impression of Levine as overly cautious in some ways but in others, particularly when his conducting was unflinchingly introspective or orgiastic, altogether incautious.
  — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 21 Dec. 2017
• Being a Luddite in today's orgiastic marketplace is to believe that any society based on hysterical consumerism will ultimately devour itself.
  — Tony Long, WIRED, 21 Dec. 2006
• James Cameron’s Titanic, exultantly melodramatic, debuted in 1997 to near immediate, orgiastic obsession and cleaned up at the following Academy Awards.
  — Hazlitt, 4 May 2022

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