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

It's now possible to try to reconstruct their motivations--a task made more urgent by the saturnalia of lawmaking under way.

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

But three months of wandering, trimming and revision have turned it into a saturnalia as amusing as it is brash.

From Time Magazine Archive

Many see the danger of a social or political cataclysm resulting from the saturnalia of degeneracy, disease, and crime that is being bred by tenement life and congested cities.

From Our National Defense: The Patriotism of Peace by Maxwell, George Hebard