orgy

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A muse for Allen Ginsberg, whose ecstatic litany of a poem “A Supermarket in California” captures the orgy of too many and just enough options, the numbness of excess.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2024

In fact it must always be the last resort, and then not be allowed to turn into an orgy of dominance over the foe.

From Salon • Nov. 8, 2022

The festival of guesswork, the orgy of speculation.

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2022

Such prognostications have tantalized many eager for the fabled liberation of a century ago — what Fitzgerald described as “the most expensive orgy in history.”

From Seattle Times • May 28, 2021

He spent his time exercising his horse, unless he got an order to ride express for the Afric Queen, in learning to write with his left hand, and an orgy of reading.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes