orgiastic

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She has a gift for bringing together details that are both poignant and startling, laying them out with particular aplomb when delving into the orgiastic misdirection of funds into authoritarian coffers.

From Washington Post • Dec. 23, 2020

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

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

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 affected their lives.

From New York Times • Jan. 11, 2016

Probably it was the same as that of the Celts of Great Britain and Gaul, Druidism, wild, orgiastic, and perhaps sanguinary.

From Irish History and the Irish Question by Smith, Goldwin