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Recent Examples of bacchanaliaWhile the young actors light up the screen in their other ventures, here, they are simply dragged and squeezed into Levinson's male gaze bacchanalia.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
9 Apr. 2026 Betting is folded into the bacchanalia, so even non-gamblers gamble.—
J.j. Bailey,
New York Times,
4 Feb. 2026 Now, 23 years later, Art Basel and the surrounding bacchanalia of Miami Art Week are firmly ensconced, even if the contemporary art market has been in the doldrums, and the city seems to have secured its place in the art firmament – at least in December.—
Andres Viglucci,
Miami Herald,
30 Nov. 2025 This gastro bacchanalia might look unchanged from a few decades ago, with 90-pound butter sculptures and century-old barns, towering carnival rides, and extravagant displays of agriculture.—
Jess Eng,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
17 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for bacchanalia
For more than a decade, college football’s Week 1 has been a bacchanal of riches.
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Chris Branch,
New York Times,
3 Sep. 2026
The private flight to Belfort’s bachelor party In the film, a private flight to Las Vegas for Jordan’s bachelor party becomes one long bacchanal of Quaaludes and escorts.
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JP Mangalindan,
Entertainment Weekly,
14 July 2026
Author-director Wayne Wang is back to carnal game playing as a catalyst for psychological mischief in Diary of a Mad Old Man, which stars Fan Bingbing and Lily Franky and is headed to a gala world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival.
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Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Sep. 2026
The annual summertime gala week is an important time for the Ranch in terms of fundraising.