In a number of venues now (check out Zilvinas Kempinas's "Ballroom," a disco-meets-bumper-car installation at Yvon Lambert) the carnivalesque is alive and well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taking Senses to the Extreme] Reference

This is a fine book, but it is far from the only "carnivalesque" novel to be found in postwar fiction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Comedy in Literature] Reference

In the more carnivalesque Bozzy and Piozzi, a Town.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Manlius to Peter Pindar':Satire, Patriotism, and Masculinity in the 1790s] Reference

The album is a carnivalesque fest and completely engaging.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume Thirty-Three] Reference

Tom Waits/Jacques Brel/Brecht here, with dark carnivalesque vibe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nowhere Town: Act TWO Scene I] Reference

It has a feeling that is quintessentially American in a carnivalesque way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-09-01] Reference

Enter Guerra and merengue, the breakneck, carnivalesque rhythm of the Dominican Republic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crossover Dreamers] Reference

"Hi there, pa'dner!" he said, his electronic voice dripping with ador able carnivalesque.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Super Sad True Love Story'] Reference

Just a quick note to let you know that i linked to this post in the latest carnivalesque.    From Wordnik.com.  [Human sacrifice in Anglo-Saxon England] Reference

Look at those severed limbs, the carnivalesque women of colour with crutches on the beach.    From Wordnik.com.  [If you look up Patriarchy in the dictionary... - And She Knits Too!] Reference

Is it really that different than the identical “carnivalesque” critical concept in the West?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Néojaponisme » Blog Archive » Otaku and Zen Buddhism?] Reference

If you visit venice beach and its carnivalesque boardwalk, your eyes will swim in a vast sea of human oddities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fishing the Venice Beach Pier] Reference

Either way, Mr. Irwin has transformed PaceWildenstein's Chelsea gallery into a world equally ominous and carnivalesque.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lighthearted Abstract Expressionist] Reference

Please set aside notions of a carnivalesque bearded woman, for this is not a piece on female facial hair and its removal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Summer Qassim: Beard Feared, Sheared] Reference

Ultimately, what keeps this fan masquerade from falling into pure sexism is the carnivalesque quality of the convention floor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-09-01] Reference

In a nutshell: Model Filippa Hamilton was digitally whittled and twisted into a comically carnivalesque Laffy Taffy of a human.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leslie Goldman: Ralph Lauren Model: I Was Fired For Being Too Fat] Reference

In a nutshell: Model Filippa Hamilton was digitally whittled and twisted into a comically carnivalesque Laffy Taffy of a human being.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leslie Goldman: Ralph Lauren Model: I Was Fired For Being Too Fat] Reference

Afghan saying Please set aside notions of a carnivalesque bearded woman, for this is not a piece on female facial hair and its removal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Summer Qassim: Beard Feared, Sheared] Reference

Martelly, flanked by Haitian hip-hop performer Wyclef Jean, led a carnivalesque demonstration to a CEP office in the Delmas neighborhood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Emily Schmall: Allegations of Fraud and Corruption Mar Haiti Elections (SLIDESHOW)] Reference

Despite the scene's apparent seriousness and sense of purpose, there also lurks, just beneath the surface, the carnivalesque spectacle of a.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alexis Soyer and the Rise of the Celebrity Chef] Reference

Sometimes she puts her subjects in carnivalesque attire to play up the contrast, says Claudia Cellini, her dealer at the Third Line Gallery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Art's New Oasis] Reference

But hip-hop occupies the realm of the carnivalesque, which aims to up-end white middle class sensibilities in the spirit of defiance and play.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barbara Ehrenreich: Nappy-headed Hos of the World Unite!] Reference

Jonathan Baldock's carnivalesque, highly detailed heads are sculpted from homemade play-dough, to which he adds synthetic hair and doll's eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saatchi's Newspeak: the good, bad and indifferent] Reference

With her carnivalesque stage show and eye-popping fashion sense, we can only wonder what sort of world would inhabit the pages of an Ebony Bones comic.    From Wordnik.com.  [MySpace Phenom Ebony Bones Borrows Name From DC Universe] Reference

Rupert Goold, whose direction made derivatives dance in the financial satire Enron, now brings his galvanising carnivalesque to Mike Bartlett's new play.    From Wordnik.com.  [Earthquakes in London; The Good Soldier; FIB] Reference

See this interesting article — apparently the work precedes the persecution of “witches” by a generation and is to be understood in a satirical, carnivalesque spirit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-07-01] Reference

Questions are being asked in London about the tactics adopted by British police to deal with even the most carnivalesque protesters during the Group of 20 summit last week.    From Wordnik.com.  [Questions About Police Tactics During G-20 - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference

Of Bangkok and their carnivalesque travelling show.    From Wordnik.com.  [Virtual Festivals] Reference

Florentines at any rate spend no more money nor faith on the carnivalesque.    From Wordnik.com.  [Italian Hours] Reference

The FIFA World Cup is an intrusion of the carnivalesque into 'realpolitik.'.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Merchants and advertisers have been crucial, Schmidt argues, to promoting holidays in a grand, carnivalesque manner.    From Wordnik.com.  [GetReligion] Reference

Illuminated by the lantern-light, the scene is more than picturesque: it is a carnivalesque display of gala-costume.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series] Reference

The crowd, which thickened most in the Piazza di Venezia, had grown more and more carnivalesque in attire and behavior.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roman Holidays, and Others] Reference

Album standout "Cranberry" segued from a carnivalesque intro into the strongest vocal performance of the night, a joyous, cascading melody reminiscent of Noah Lennox.    From Wordnik.com.  [Comments for BrightestYoungThings] Reference