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 her great days, Mae West was a one-woman saturnalia.
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
What had been a joyous bacchanal had degenerated into a horrid saturnalia.
From The Whirligig of Time by Wayland Wells Williams
