saturnalian

This novel’s density is saturnalian; its satire nimble; academics will tug at its themes, as if they were pinworms, for decades.

But when they flew into L.A. for their first sold-out gig at the Roxy in early November, there was one local site of Saturnalian bad behavior they just had to visit.

By night, he held saturnalian parties at a downtown strip called the Pussycat Lounge with his friend Carlos Quirarte.

Sun Ra’s taste for outrageous outfits and Saturnalian mythology was central to his work, yet sometimes overshadowed his musical importance—he was the most revolutionary American big-band leader after Duke Ellington.

Cotton Mather argued that during the “Saturnalian jollities” of late December, “men dishonoured the Lord Jesus Christ more in the twelve days of Christmas” than in all the twelve months of the preceding year.