festal

Example Sentences

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At the Blue Note, Jean performs a kind of Haitian exceptionalism: a sensorially rich, festal theater that serves as a necessary counterweight to the country’s grim realities of poverty and political neglect.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2026

Rather than succumbing to despair and too much eggnog, theater companies have instead turned to performance capture, audio drama, livestream, green screen, shadow puppets and virtual reality to deliver festal entertainment.

From New York Times • Dec. 12, 2020

It was an uneventful, though positive, return after a festal prelude, which included the mariachi band giving a second performance while Washington took batting practice.

From Washington Post • May 5, 2018

Yet for all the irrepressible flamboyance of the Dickens atmosphere, the story certainly presents us with someone committed to the suppression of the festal world, and of kindness itself.

From The Guardian • Dec. 19, 2015

He gave his hateful mother and her soft man a tomb together, and proclaimed the funeral day a festal day for all the Argive people.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer