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

These early novels could be carnivalesque in their humor.

From New York Times • Jun. 13, 2023

The Florentines at any rate spend no more money nor faith on the carnivalesque.

From Italian Hours by James, Henry