How to Use orgiastic in a Sentence

orgiastic

adjective
  • The last part of the suite is an orgiastic dance in 5/4 time.
    — Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 May 2022
  • The movie is as remarkable for its mise-en-scène as for its druggie, orgiastic content.
    — J. Hoberman, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2017
  • And as Lloyd points out, the orgiastic bits — which are so intoxicating live — can seem crude.
    — Geoff Dyer, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2017
  • The movie was a satire about four men determined to eat themselves to death during an orgiastic villa weekend.
    — Anita Gates, BostonGlobe.com, 18 May 2020
  • There’s even an orgiastic bacchanal and a dramatic courtroom finale.
    — Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2023
  • The Commander has brought her to an orgiastic version of The Ritz Carlton.
    — Sarah Bichsel, baltimoresun.com, 2 June 2017
  • Additionally, while howling at the moon last Thursday in an orgiastic frenzy, I was struck with an epiphany.
    — Josh Gondelman, The New Yorker, 27 Aug. 2023
  • Now, the long-running Covid dramedy appears to be nearing its finale, in the form of an orgiastic flurry of vaccine content.
    — New York Times, 27 Apr. 2021
  • The video for his first single bears clear evidence of that statement with its bacchanalian orgiastic scenes of a mysterious party.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 11 Oct. 2019
  • Particularly striking is the third movement, packed with eerie string glissandos that set off the orgiastic climaxes that follow.
    — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 15 June 2018
  • Nino Strachey puts Bloomsbury’s orgiastic side in useful context.
    — Alexander C. Kafka, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Still, the overall lack of orgiastic feats of American marketing spend left me feeling curiously maudlin.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 27 May 2026
  • But deeper in, percussion livens up under orgiastic shrieks and a cameo on guitar from Adam Granduciel of the War on Drugs.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 3 June 2025
  • Vitali also portrayed Red Cloak, the masked leader of the aristocratic, orgiastic cult at the center of the latter film.
    — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 21 Aug. 2022
  • Commercials advertising fast food are orgiastic displays of careless skin contact.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2020
  • Conflicts among actors, scientists, and oligarchs become orgiastic, exorcised by prayer vigils that can be responded to only with awe.
    — Armond White, National Review, 25 Aug. 2023
  • In the editing suite, King played another scene from Episode 3, in which Carrie returns home after an orgiastic round of shoe shopping.
    — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 19 June 2023
  • Expect, by turns, orgiastic, mournful, darkly funny and relentlessly compelling sets.
    — John Wenzel, The Know, 19 Dec. 2019
  • While much of the United States observes, nonplussed, denizens of Washington lose themselves to three days of orgiastic celebration.
    — T.a. Frank, The Hive, 1 Sep. 2017
  • The public faces of the Seven hide orgiastic hedonism, drug addiction, and indiscriminate murder.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2020
  • In Onions’ story a fragile, bedridden young woman starts to hear, at first only faintly, the intoxicating sounds of orgiastic, Dionysian revelry.
    — Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2021
  • The Hairpin, a feminist blog, first highlighted stock photos featuring women in near-orgiastic delight over bowls of raw veggies back in 2011.
    — Kerry Reid, chicagotribune.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Just as Pollock’s drip paintings are material evidence of a Dionysian dance around a canvas spread on the floor, Twombly’s paintings can look like the aftermath of an orgiastic frenzy.
    — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2023
  • The resulting film, Yes—opening this week in New York City—begins with an orgiastic carnival among warmongers in Tel Aviv.
    — Jordan Hoffman, Vanity Fair, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Things get even more heated when the characters burst into a series of sweltering original songs at the Juke, creating an orgiastic — even religious — fever strong enough to rip the space-time continuum apart at the seams.
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 10 Apr. 2025
  • The Danish composer’s lyrics suggest a singularity between nature and the human body, painted in such orgiastic imagery as to make In Utero seem modest.
    — Pitchfork, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Being a Luddite in today's orgiastic marketplace is to believe that any society based on hysterical consumerism will ultimately devour itself.
    — Tony Long, WIRED, 21 Dec. 2006
  • From initial claims of fondling and penetration of the preschoolers by Buckey, the accusations mushroomed to accommodate all seven members of the preschool’s staff, engaged in orgiastic activities with their students.
    — Talia Lavin, The New Republic, 29 Sep. 2020
  • Anthropology tells us that early agricultural tribes made their women the star actresses in orgiastic fertility rites and that their descendants deified an Earth Mother who was the author of all life.
    — Dorothy Dunbar Bromley, Harper's Magazine, 24 Nov. 2020
  • This might then leave us with the impression of Levine as overly cautious in some ways but in others, particularly when his conducting was unflinchingly introspective or orgiastic, altogether incautious.
    — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 21 Dec. 2017

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