carnivalesque

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“It kills me how out of touch Cuomo is,” she said, dressed in black leggings and taking pictures with her pink iPhone of the carnivalesque “No Kings” rally.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2025

Molly learns a passel of thinpgs in this surrealist, carnivalesque bildungsroman.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2024

Food trucks, games, a band and balloons made the atmosphere carnivalesque.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 27, 2024

The critic who called the ’93 Biennial “a theme park of the oppressed” got one thing right: It did have a carnivalesque, even scrappy mood, artists doing what they could to fight for their lives.

From New York Times • Dec. 27, 2023

This was the Saturday before the first Monday in August, and therefore the formal opening of Knype Wakes, the most carnivalesque of all the carnivals which enliven the four seasons in the Five Towns.

From Tales of the Five Towns by Bennett, Arnold