orgiastic

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If Mini Brands shrink the grocery shopping experience into the palm of your hand, “Supermarket Sweep” supersizes it, dramatizing the errand as an orgiastic ritual.

From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2021

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

In spite of the terrible pomps that surrounded the advent of the decalogue, there subsisted for his eternal temptation the furnace of Moloch and Baal’s orgiastic nights.

From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Saltus, Edgar