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

He set out to destroy the logical underpinnings of the art form by transforming drama into a carnivalesque collage that discovered surprise not through suspense but through stasis.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 7, 2025

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

From Seattle Times • Apr. 27, 2024

But in the following weeks and then years, I saw an entire country buy into that carnivalesque rhetoric, that bandwagon of "dwarves and dancers," as we said at the time, and bring it into government.

From Salon • Jun. 18, 2023

The crowd, which thickened most in the Piazza di Venezia, had grown more and more carnivalesque in attire and behavior.

From Roman Holidays, and Others by Howells, William Dean