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

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.

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

Was there ever known such a whimsical, harmless, odd saturnalia as Naples presented during those extraordinary days?

From Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by McCarthy, Justin