saturnalia
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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
But three months of wandering, trimming and revision have turned it into a saturnalia as amusing as it is brash.
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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.
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But to the zealous guardsmen the party was saturnalia run amuck, and so they reported to their commanding officer, who alerted the military at Malaga.
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The bishops of Albi were especially active and fortunate in this saturnalia of plunder.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea