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Recent Examples of orgiastic
Conflicts among actors, scientists, and oligarchs become orgiastic, exorcised by prayer vigils that can be responded to only with awe.
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Armond White, National Review, 25 Aug. 2023
There’s even an orgiastic bacchanal and a dramatic courtroom finale.
—Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2023
Because his films have dealt with homosexuality, lesbianism, rape, violence, nudity, and drugs, it is often supposed that the private life of Andy Warhol, a bachelor, is one of prolonged orgiastic license.
—Stephen Birmingham, Town & Country, 10 Aug. 2023
In the editing suite, King played another scene from Episode 3, in which Carrie returns home after an orgiastic round of shoe shopping.
—Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 19 June 2023
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Armond White, National Review, 25 Aug. 2023
There’s even an orgiastic bacchanal and a dramatic courtroom finale.
—Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2023
Because his films have dealt with homosexuality, lesbianism, rape, violence, nudity, and drugs, it is often supposed that the private life of Andy Warhol, a bachelor, is one of prolonged orgiastic license.
—Stephen Birmingham, Town & Country, 10 Aug. 2023
In the editing suite, King played another scene from Episode 3, in which Carrie returns home after an orgiastic round of shoe shopping.
—Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 19 June 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for orgiastic
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The weakness of the Biden administration’s policies was drowned out by frenzied attention to some Republicans’ objections to supporting Ukraine.Mitch McConnell, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2024
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Severe lightning, torrential rain and 70-mph winds sent the frenzied sellout crowd of 90,000 at Memorial Stadium scampering for cover.Mike Bianchi, Orlando Sentinel, 14 Dec. 2024
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But Rock imbued his role with such uninhibited certainty about his importance to The Simpsons’ lore that everyone started playing along.Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 15 Dec. 2024
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His ambitions, formed by spectacular golden-age classics and by the moderns’ uninhibited artistry, have run up against the realities of the economy and the psychology of contemporary cinema—its all-too-common division of industrial power and artistic intent.Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2024
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While unrestrained display of ancient splendor defines the Seychelles’ easterly, inner islands, southern and western islands boast more familiar, low-lying sandy fare, cloaked in coconut forests.Paul Rubio, AFAR Media, 23 Dec. 2024
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In order to bring authoritarian stability to Syrian politics, Assad deployed unrestrained violence.Sefa Secen / Made by History, TIME, 17 Dec. 2024
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“Orgiastic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/orgiastic. Accessed 4 Jan. 2025.
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