saturnalia
Example Sentences
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The riot may have been a saturnalia of stupid, but we need to take it seriously.
From Salon • Oct. 28, 2022
In a music-hall saturnalia of honky-tonk pianos, white masks, and silent movie captions, the late great German playwright fashioned a prophetically dramatic exercise in brainwashing.
From Time Magazine Archive
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In her great days, Mae West was a one-woman saturnalia.
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The natural richness of this region and the willingness of Western governments to bankroll his regime have enabled Zaire's President to indulge in an uninterrupted saturnalia of misrule and kleptomania.
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When McCalloway looked at those eyes he recalled the water in the Blue Grotto, whose scrap of vividness transcends all the other high-keyed colour of Naples Bay—Naples Bay, which is itself a saturnalia of colour!
From The Tempering by Buck, Charles Neville