orgiastic

Example Sentences

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“It’s the most frenzied event in golf” instead of “It’s the most orgiastic event in golf.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 22, 2022

Meanwhile, business owners in Ischgl say they have been scapegoated and that reports of orgiastic scenes are gross exaggerations.

From The Guardian • Sep. 5, 2020

But “fanatic” came to be associated with orgiastic rites and misplaced devotion, even demonic possession, and this may explain why fan behavior is often described using religious terms, such as “worship” and “idol.”

From The New Yorker • Sep. 9, 2019

But, at the same time, he composed “Symphonie Fantastique,” a phantasmagoric tone poem culminating in the orgiastic “Witches’ Sabbath,” which has become one of the wildest exhibits in the 19th-century orchestral canon.

From New York Times • Oct. 16, 2018

The mood was rapturous, but not abandoned; ecstatic, but not orgiastic.

From Appearances Being Notes of Travel by Dickinson, G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes)