orgiastic

Example Sentences

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“It’s the most frenzied event in golf” instead of “It’s the most orgiastic event in golf.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 22, 2022

But “fanatic” came to be associated with orgiastic rites and misplaced devotion, even demonic possession, and this may explain why fan behavior is often described using religious terms, such as “worship” and “idol.”

From The New Yorker • Sep. 9, 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.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 21, 2017

Photograph: Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images But it isn’t just this orgiastic edible entanglement of trademarks that makes these sort of shock foods notable.

From The Guardian • Jun. 26, 2016

Thus while the state religion in its debauched condition was losing influence, the orgiastic element in worship was gaining power through these newly acquired Oriental cults.

From The Religion of Numa And Other Essays on the Religion of Ancient Rome by Carter, Jesse Benedict