festal

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At the Blue Note, Jean performs a kind of Haitian exceptionalism: a sensorially rich, festal theater that serves as a necessary counterweight to the country’s grim realities of poverty and political neglect.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2026

Rather than succumbing to despair and too much eggnog, theater companies have instead turned to performance capture, audio drama, livestream, green screen, shadow puppets and virtual reality to deliver festal entertainment.

From New York Times • Dec. 12, 2020

Celebrate the birth of Jesus for this festal liturgy with special music and an extended, candlelit prelude of seasonal organ music, choral anthems and congregational carols beginning 30 minutes before.

From Washington Post • Dec. 16, 2016

Yet for all the irrepressible flamboyance of the Dickens atmosphere, the story certainly presents us with someone committed to the suppression of the festal world, and of kindness itself.

From The Guardian • Dec. 19, 2015

He gave his hateful mother and her soft man a tomb together, and proclaimed the funeral day a festal day for all the Argive people.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer