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

Martin Scorsese combines archival footage with fresh interviews and tall tales to paint a mostly factual portrait of the carnivalesque tour launched by Bob Dylan in 1975.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2024

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

From Seattle Times • Apr. 27, 2024

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

From New York Times • Apr. 28, 2023

Salamandering with an iron that has a gay, carnivalesque design can make a sort of harlequin Ramekin.

From The Complete Book of Cheese by Brown, Robert Carlton