orgiastic

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No bridge is long enough to span the abyss between “best efforts” and “spreading dangerous bull hockey from a woman who believes in disease-spreading orgiastic dream demons.”

From Washington Post • Jul. 28, 2020

With its PG-13 rating, and its solemn statements of faith in the band as a family, “Bohemian Rhapsody” may be the least orgiastic tribute ever paid to the world of rock.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 26, 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

Many here noted that Mr. Bowie, a global star whose songs about being an outsider and an outcast gave him a particular cult status during the orgiastic, anything-goes 1970s, had affected their lives.

From New York Times • Jan. 11, 2016

They had the common object of sacrifice to a particular deity; the thiasi and orgeones seem to be connected more especially with foreign deities whose rites were of an orgiastic character.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" by Various