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
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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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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In the wild saturnalia that ensues, all the restraints of decency and habit are thrown on one side.
From The Night Side of London by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)