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A muse for Allen Ginsberg, whose ecstatic litany of a poem “A Supermarket in California” captures the orgy of too many and just enough options, the numbness of excess.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2024
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
The festival of guesswork, the orgy of speculation.
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2022
He became a privacy campaigner after the News of the World newspaper ran a story in 2008 reporting, incorrectly, that he had attended a “Nazi-themed” orgy with several women.
From Seattle Times ● May 24, 2021
He spent his time exercising his horse, unless he got an order to ride express for the Afric Queen, in learning to write with his left hand, and an orgy of reading.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
He can sketch a character lightly, with only a half turn and a flutter of his lashes, or debauch himself in orgies of gesture and expression.
From New York Times ● Nov. 21, 2022
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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