orgiastic
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Much later, Crusoe discovers an orgiastic cannibal feast and helps rescue a captive to whom he gives the name Friday.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 23, 2019
With its PG-13 rating, and its solemn statements of faith in the band as a family, “Bohemian Rhapsody” may be the least orgiastic tribute ever paid to the world of rock.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 26, 2018
But, at the same time, he composed “Symphonie Fantastique,” a phantasmagoric tone poem culminating in the orgiastic “Witches’ Sabbath,” which has become one of the wildest exhibits in the 19th-century orchestral canon.
From New York Times ● Oct. 16, 2018
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
He found that the Dionysian state depended on emotional or orgiastic intoxication.
From The Literature of Ecstasy by Albert Mordell
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