| From Greek Old Comedy he borrowed the saturnalian pattern of release from restraint through recognition and clarification. |
| 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. |
| They raid the bounteous Gulf for food, and then stage saturnalian feasts of shrimp, crab, and moonshine. |
| 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. |
| A fortune, rapid and secure, darted before du Tillet's eyes like a flash of lightning in a saturnalian night. |
