Examples of carnivalesque in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web His reporting causes thousands of people to gather at the mountain Minosa is buried under, creating a carnivalesque atmosphere. — Steve Larkin, The Week, 1 Apr. 2022 The most interesting Japanese photographers, though, were anxious and angry; their moments were mostly indecisive, and their carnivalesque characters, A-bomb victims, gutter trash, and shocks of light seemed outlandish if not perverse. — Leo Rubinfien, The New York Review of Books, 11 Feb. 2021 The conferences, sometimes homey and sometimes homely in their setups, were antidotes to the carnivalesque grotesqueries of then-President Donald Trump’s COVID-19 conferences. — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 10 Aug. 2021 Their world seems like our own but then, when a dormouse is offered as a snack, becomes almost carnivalesque. — James Romm, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2021 There is nothing in politics quite like a Trump Train, said Mike Guevara, a Hispanic Republican candidate for state representative in Texas, referring to the carnivalesque caravans that have revved the campaign’s emotional engine. — Jonathan Tilove, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2020 Surely even medieval peasants sometimes stared into the middle distance and sighed over their barley pottage, longing for the next village fête day and a bit of carnivalesque mayhem. — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2020 Eisenman has lately funneled much of her perversity into raucous sculptures that answer exactly to the tenor of our ghoulish, carnivalesque politics. — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2020 Along with New York-style slices, the pizzeria will boast a menu of 10 eye-popping pies and six hoagies, served alongside Brgr Stop’s usual menu of carnivalesque hamburgers, boozy milkshakes and root-beer-sriracha chicken wings. — Phillip Valys, sun-sentinel.com, 5 Aug. 2020 See More

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