carnivalesque

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“It kills me how out of touch Cuomo is,” she said, dressed in black leggings and taking pictures with her pink iPhone of the carnivalesque “No Kings” rally.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2025

He set out to destroy the logical underpinnings of the art form by transforming drama into a carnivalesque collage that discovered surprise not through suspense but through stasis.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 7, 2025

Food trucks, games, a band and balloons made the atmosphere carnivalesque.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 27, 2024

The critic who called the ’93 Biennial “a theme park of the oppressed” got one thing right: It did have a carnivalesque, even scrappy mood, artists doing what they could to fight for their lives.

From New York Times • Dec. 27, 2023

He hung about the caf� until groups returning from the Closerie in every variety of carnivalesque costume had filled it with a noisy company.

From Mated from the Morgue A tale of the Second Empire by O'Shea, John Augustus