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
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
In 1930-31, for instance, steamship lines began running week-end cruises, or saturnalia, outside the Twelve Mile Limit.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
The bald iron-reddened forehead of the Banks, forever ferocious over man's vandalism, glared as angrily upon autumn's saturnalia as it had upon spring's tender eagerness.
From Nobody's Child by Dejeans, Elizabeth
