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

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

But three months of wandering, trimming and revision have turned it into a saturnalia as amusing as it is brash.

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

But the New Year was a modest kind of saturnalia, kept very much as the Calvinistic Dutch settlers of New York kept it in the days of the Dutch governors.

From All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston