bacchanalia

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Recent Examples of bacchanalia The film won the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 1960 and stars one of Fellini’s muses, Marcello Mastroianni, as a tabloid journalist on a week-long bacchanalia through the ancient, yet modern city in search of love and happiness. Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 7 Dec. 2024 The party morphs into a bacchanalia. Sakhi Thirani, JSTOR Daily, 22 Mar. 2023 Punk in the Park is headed back to Denver for a grizzled bacchanalia of punk rock, craft beer and nostalgia, following its single-day debut in 2021. John Wenzel, The Denver Post, 27 Feb. 2025 Some instead clamored for New Orleans's own Lil Wayne, a living embodiment of the raucous creativity and bacchanalia of the city hosting Super Bowl LIX. Andrew R. Chow, TIME, 10 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for bacchanalia
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bacchanalia
Noun
  • What ensued was an orgy of finger-pointing and budget slashing.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 21 Apr. 2025
  • There are sections on orgies and masturbation and voyeurism and how to behave in a porno theater.
    Dwight Garner, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • But now there are ways to enjoy some bacchanal on a budget, proving that the freedom of Carnival can actually be free.
    Baz Dreisinger, Forbes.com, 5 Apr. 2025
  • But now there are ways to enjoy some bacchanal on a budget, proving that the freedom of Carnival can actually be free.
    Baz Dreisinger, Forbes.com, 5 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • My friends, Max and Will Grove, who are involved with the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center of New York, invited me to join them at their table at the organization’s annual fundraising gala.
    Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 25 Apr. 2025
  • Invitations are typically limited to elite figures in the worlds of fashion and entertainment, and are approved by Anna Wintour, who has overseen the gala since 1995.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Apr. 2025

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