How to Use anarchic in a Sentence
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The challenge starts with a silly makeover for both parents, an enormous ice cream sundae, and a ride through the car wash with the windows down — but an anarchic trip to the amusement park ends with both parents arrested.
— Danny Horn, EW.com, 20 July 2024 -
At the time, the Dead were known to play anarchic sets that would last through the night.
— Saby Reyes-Kulkarni, SPIN, 20 Dec. 2023 -
The first movie was anarchic, and a comedic breath of fresh air in some ways.
— Nick Vadala, Philly.com, 18 Apr. 2018 -
The score by Hollmann and Kotis lacks the anarchic wit of their work in Urinetown.
— Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Apr. 2018 -
The effect is slightly anarchic and very pleasing to the eye.
— Fabiana Giacomotti, Vogue, 16 Jan. 2022 -
But the portrait of him as some anarchic arsonist just isn't the case, Williams says.
— Reid Forgrave, Star Tribune, 20 Feb. 2021 -
For one night only, those anarchic texts and sounds were brought to life by dozens of Yale actors.
— Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 21 Jan. 2024 -
But even when pastry isn’t flying through the air, this quiz is anarchic.
— Bethy Squires, Vulture, 1 Jan. 2022 -
The shows were quite punky, in your face, anarchic and pushed the envelope of what was acceptable.
— Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 May 2024 -
Yet the film still has a sense of anarchic absurdism, an I-can’t-believe-I-just-saw-that feeling of shock and delight.
— Mark Olsen Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2022 -
But the anarchic spin-off marks Harley’s liberation from more than just her crazed-clown beau.
— Mary Sollosi, EW.com, 1 Oct. 2019 -
The first anarchic Broadway kid’s show in a long while, SpongeBob now looks set to soak up some business from Disney.
— Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 13 Dec. 2017 -
The biggest change to this whole arc is the creation of Kathleen, who gives a stronger narrative focal point to the more anarchic Hunters faction in the game.
— Kyle Orland and Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 11 Feb. 2023 -
Putin looks out at an anarchic and menacing world in which he is condemned to compete with a stronger China and a stronger U.S.
— Michael Kimmage, The New Republic, 26 Jan. 2021 -
The pavilion’s anarchic din feels as generous and resilient, in its way, as Leigh’s serene and silent sculptures in the U.S. Pavilion.
— Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2022 -
Meanwhile, all anyone can hear is a mixture of boos and anarchic yelling from the audience.
— Billboard Staff, Billboard, 22 Aug. 2019 -
Instead, public space could stand to be more mixed and amorphous, even a little anarchic.
— Curbed, 19 Jan. 2023 -
Take a friend, your dad, an aunt, your anarchic little twins — one of whom likes drawing, the other throwing punches.
— Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2024 -
This was anarchic and fun, a crazily end-to-end game, but its shapelessness ultimately summed up the flaws of both sides.
— Jonathan Wilson, SI.com, 1 Sep. 2019 -
At first, Paik was baffled by Cage and Tudor’s performance, which was noisy and anarchic.
— Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2023 -
In that political climate, a group of anarchic raiders known as the Nihil emerge.
— Jack Francis, Vulture, 5 June 2024 -
Power lines hung in low, anarchic bundles—informal hookups to the grid.
— Alex Cuadros, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020 -
The next step was to figure out how to translate the narrative structure of Last Days into the medium of opera, but still retain its anarchic streak.
— Liam Hess, Vogue, 7 Oct. 2022 -
But even in this anarchic space, rebels here and elsewhere throughout the country are providing some show of statehood.
— Jack Losh, Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2018 -
This adaptation of the anarchic stage musical about a world-conquering plant sanded off some of the rough edges and gave it a happy ending that doesn’t fit the rest of the film.
— Chris Hewitt, Star Tribune, 12 Aug. 2020 -
In the end, Belushi should be remembered for performances that were timeless but captured the anarchic spirit of the 1970s, Cutler said.
— Stuart Miller, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2020 -
The absurdist sketch comedy series was out of step with prime time network TV but the anarchic humor stands the test of time … mostly.
— Sean Axmaker, OregonLive.com, 27 Oct. 2017 -
One reason for its longevity is its playful, punky take on the classic British uniform worn by its army of anarchic schoolgirls.
— Liam Hes, Vogue, 14 July 2021 -
The Shiba developers' take on the anarchic campaigns that didn't take hold?
— Shawn Tully, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2021 -
The United States would ultimately suffer in a more anarchic world—but between now and then, everyone else would pay the greater price.
— Hal Brands, Foreign Affairs, 27 May 2024
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