carnivalesque

Molly learns a passel of thinpgs in this surrealist, carnivalesque bildungsroman.

Food trucks, games, a band and balloons made the atmosphere carnivalesque.

"Trump has turned Holy Week into an opportunistic carnivalesque grift."

That Trump has turned Holy Week into an opportunistic carnivalesque grift is not surprising given his character and the financial crunch he is facing from his legal troubles, but it should be appalling.

The critic who called the ’93 Biennial “a theme park of the oppressed” got one thing right: It did have a carnivalesque, even scrappy mood, artists doing what they could to fight for their lives.