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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
The house-proud suburban couples were as bad at it as the campus conservatives and the guy trying to throw an orgy.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 23, 2023
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
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
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
But often in a lot of those distresses we’ve been dragged out of our little thought orgies, having a great time in our heads.
From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 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
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