| The saturnalia that succeeded the capture of the castaway had come to a close. |
| But it never has the visceral thrill of those individual flashbacks, and the life there is never obviously building to final climactic saturnalia of violence. |
| The effect is a come-as-you-are saturnalia of all-around, jolly rage and loathing. |
| The birth of Black, he proposes, is a generic saturnalia, and the point about a saturnalia is that we know order will be restored, that Banville will publish as Banville again. |
| This, then, is the trapper's holiday, when he is all for fun and frolic, and ready for a saturnalia among the mountains. |
| We advanced into the main hall, already aroar with a saturnalia of sozzled gestures and gibbering. |
