orgy
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In fact it must always be the last resort, and then not be allowed to turn into an orgy of dominance over the foe.
From Salon ● Nov. 8, 2022
She didn’t try to leverage it into a rhetoric of cruelty, nor did she try to transform it into a self-congratulatory orgy of empathy, much less a “celebration” of people’s “identities.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 26, 2022
The festival of guesswork, the orgy of speculation.
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2022
When Atiya Walcott’s Eve confronts a multiheaded Serpent, conceived as an orgy of voices and limbs, human vulnerability is endowed with aching grace.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2021
In 1924, the Indian Rights Association, which defended the interests of indigenous communities, conducted an investigation into what it described as “an orgy of graft and exploitation.”
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
And if the novel has not yet been used to advertise actual orgies, the Gatsby name has already sold diamond headpieces, champagne coupes, hotel suites.
From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2023
Elsewhere, though, her lyrics reference everyone from Brad and Angelina to UFC fighter Conor McGregor, while joking about Pilates classes, fast food orgies, and "hot potato pain".
From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2022
When the right people take the podium these three-hour telecasts become something more than fashion shows and orgies of self-congratulation which, make no mistake, they still are.
From Salon ● Jan. 6, 2020
The streets are orgies of blossoms, boughs of cherries and pears histrionically thick with flowers in basic white and show-off pink.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 23, 2019
These habits of former times appear to me now lavish, decadent almost; immoral, like the orgies of barbarian regimes.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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