carnivalesque

Example Sentences

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On June 2, the hordes head out at sunset on Tour la Nuit, many in oddball costumes with bikes bedecked in carnivalesque lights.

From Washington Times

It features new paintings, works on paper and a three-screen film downstairs, exploring the phenomenon of the “carnivalesque.”

From Seattle Times

As the rules proliferated, they risked eroding the central appeal of live-streamed shopping: the entertaining, carnivalesque atmosphere.

From New York Times

Whereas speaking in tongues, the ecstatic carnivalesque language of Trumpism is pleasure in violence.

From Salon

As the art historian Patricia Lee Rubin writes in “Seen From Behind,” her 2018 book on backsides in Renaissance painting and sculpture, artistic depictions of the human rear have always had “a double life”: both base and noble, both desired and disgusting, “at once connected to the highest values of high art” and still “obscene, carnivalesque, comical or villainous.”

From New York Times