orgiastic
Example Sentences
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“It’s the most frenzied event in golf” instead of “It’s the most orgiastic event in golf.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 22, 2022
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
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
How many earldoms and dukedoms are not based upon some detestable action, some despicable service rendered some orgiastic sovereign!
From The Voice in the Fog by Harold MacGrath
