orgiastic

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She has a gift for bringing together details that are both poignant and startling, laying them out with particular aplomb when delving into the orgiastic misdirection of funds into authoritarian coffers.

From Washington Post • Dec. 23, 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

Photograph: Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images But it isn’t just this orgiastic edible entanglement of trademarks that makes these sort of shock foods notable.

From The Guardian • Jun. 26, 2016

This naturalistic cult was introduced from Phrygia, and its orgiastic rites and nameless infamies had a horrible fascination for an age of decaying faith.

From Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood by Macmillan, Hugh