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

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

Meanwhile, business owners in Ischgl say they have been scapegoated and that reports of orgiastic scenes are gross exaggerations.

From The Guardian • Sep. 5, 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

Though Dionysus is not directly spoken of as the wine-god here, yet the gear of his attendants, and his own title, "the frenzied," seem to identify him with the deity of orgiastic frenzy.

From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Lang, Andrew