carnivalesque
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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“It kills me how out of touch Cuomo is,” she said, dressed in black leggings and taking pictures with her pink iPhone of the carnivalesque “No Kings” rally.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2025
He set out to destroy the logical underpinnings of the art form by transforming drama into a carnivalesque collage that discovered surprise not through suspense but through stasis.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 7, 2025
Food trucks, games, a band and balloons made the atmosphere carnivalesque.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 27, 2024
These early novels could be carnivalesque in their humor.
From New York Times • Jun. 13, 2023
It is a strange perversion to take pleasure in these carnivalesque figures when one can have the paintings of Leonardo, Titian, Correggio, Velasquez, Rubens, Rembrandt, Poussin, or Prud'hon.
From Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels by France, Anatole
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