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

Molly learns a passel of thinpgs in this surrealist, carnivalesque bildungsroman.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2024

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

From Seattle Times • Apr. 27, 2024

But in the following weeks and then years, I saw an entire country buy into that carnivalesque rhetoric, that bandwagon of "dwarves and dancers," as we said at the time, and bring it into government.

From Salon • Jun. 18, 2023

The Florentines at any rate spend no more money nor faith on the carnivalesque.

From Italian Hours by James, Henry