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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
"There's been an orgy of disinformation over Ukraine," political commentator Peter Kreko told me.
From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2022
In the video, he quotes the novelist Leo Tolstoy: “The villains who robbed the people gathered together, recruited soldiers and judges to guard their orgy, and are feasting.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 26, 2021
Beyond shame, I cradled my head in my arms and embarked on an orgy of self-pity.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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
For all the orgies of effort and expense that go into creating fashion spectacles, the true wonder is how much enchantment can be created by the simplest of means.
From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 2018
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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