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

She didn’t try to leverage it into a rhetoric of cruelty, nor did she try to transform it into a self-congratulatory orgy of empathy, much less a “celebration” of people’s “identities.”

From Washington Post • Sep. 26, 2022

The festival of guesswork, the orgy of speculation.

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2022

In 1924, the Indian Rights Association, which defended the interests of indigenous communities, conducted an investigation into what it described as “an orgy of graft and exploitation.”

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann