orgy

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

Davidsen starts this “Salome” in a back room of the brutalist set where Herod’s orgy is taking place, wearing a white raincoat, her black hair stringy in a Goth look.

From Seattle Times ● May 13, 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

"There's been an orgy of disinformation over Ukraine," political commentator Peter Kreko told me.

From BBC ● Apr. 4, 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

And if the novel has not yet been used to advertise actual orgies, the Gatsby name has already sold diamond headpieces, champagne coupes, hotel suites.

From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2023

Elsewhere, though, her lyrics reference everyone from Brad and Angelina to UFC fighter Conor McGregor, while joking about Pilates classes, fast food orgies, and "hot potato pain".

From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2022

When the right people take the podium these three-hour telecasts become something more than fashion shows and orgies of self-congratulation which, make no mistake, they still are.

From Salon ● Jan. 6, 2020

The streets are orgies of blossoms, boughs of cherries and pears histrionically thick with flowers in basic white and show-off pink.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 23, 2019

These habits of former times appear to me now lavish, decadent almost; immoral, like the orgies of barbarian regimes.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood