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How to use saturnalian in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word saturnalian? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
Its contents were by turns phantasmagorical, hyperreal, surreal, and saturnalian.
From Greek Old Comedy he borrowed the saturnalian pattern of release from restraint through recognition and clarification.
Satire always accompanies certain festivals, for example, particularly saturnalian festivals.
They raid the bounteous Gulf for food, and then stage saturnalian feasts of shrimp, crab, and moonshine.
As a result, the authorities took steps to curb saturnalian excess.
So, come the dark third week of December, he and my wife and her brother and I left behind the saturnalian excesses of a Protestant Christmas and headed south.
Examples from Classical Literature
On holidays and fair-days these saturnalian proceedings grew more outrageous than ever.
Reference has already been made to Dr. Frazer's view of the saturnalian king and his awful origin.
A fortune, rapid and secure, darted before du Tillet's eyes like a flash of lightning in a saturnalian night.
At the vestibule door a porter, somewhat befuddled by saturnalian merry-making, was waiting sleepily.
Napoleon was scrupulously respected through the whole of this saturnalian festivity.
The solitary example of a saturnalian victim in Msia did not fulfil these conditions.
The Pure Gold Baby considers, with saturnalian humour and elegiac sorrow, how far the author's generation has come.
Ignatius, acting as a saturnalian Lord of Misrule, has upended the social relationships that were trapping Burma and Gus.
The two were very different, Luce proper and tightwound, Hadden charismatic and saturnalian.
It was found necessary to suggest that originally the saturnalian victim died in February-March, but this was not proved.
In a word, it deserves to be regarded as an effusion of saturnalian licentiousness, rather than of poetry.
The saturnalian spirit has not been extinct even in our days.
A largeness of spirit, a bottled but always leaking saturnalian joy.
But in accepting this form of play, the Biennial artists enter into a Saturnalian bargain.
Acoustic music fans will find their way to The Saturnalian Arms, a traditional real ale pub run by staff from Huddersfield boozer The Sportsman.
However, the Saturnalian satires of Horace's second book, Sat.
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