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 the style we chose for "Para Leer al Pato Donald" was as insolent, raucous and carnivalesque as the Chilean revolution itself.

From Salon • Dec. 9, 2023

Illuminated by the lantern-light, the scene is more than picturesque: it is a carnivalesque display of gala-costume.

From Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series by Hearn, Lafcadio