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
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
Britons, recalling the saturnalia of 1918's Armistice Day, were chiefly concerned about the forthcoming V-day celebrations.
From Time Magazine Archive
This saturnalia reigned for four days, and would soon have culminated—at least, so the police declared—in a general sack of the city by the congregated ruffians.
From World's End A Story in Three Books by Jefferies, Richard
