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With his skin ripped, sucked, and absorbed in countless different directions by the cannibalistic and orgiastic elite, Bill’s friend and eventual shunting victim David Blanchard (Tim Bartell) embodies a literal argument against gerrymandering.—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 4 July 2025 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 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 But the conduct of the war also has an orgiastic quality.—Seyward Darby, Longreads, 8 Feb. 2024 See All Example Sentences for orgiastic
Word History
Etymology
Greek orgiastikos, from orgiazein to celebrate orgies, from orgia
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