misrule

How To Use misrule In A Sentence

• The Advent fast ended on Christmas Eve; then there were twelve days of feasting, banqueting, pageantry, disguising, and convivial merrymaking, all presided over by the Lord of Misrule, or Master of Merry Disports.
• One of the prominent characteristics of winter celebrations was the idea of misrule, in which social roles were temporarily reversed. Happy Christmakwanzakah
• The absence of the usual Lowry matchstick people puroposely going about their business says a lot really as the North once again awaits its fate as the conservative misrule abyss slowly but surely heads its way as it did so in all those wasted tory years of the eighties and nineties where only now the rebuilding of those communites and towns has recently been completed. Cartoon: Steve Bell on the Oldham East and Saddleworth byelection
• It is a battle for the right of self-government, true democracy, just republicanism, and righteous principles, against anarchy, misrule, barbarism, human slavery, despotism, and wrong.
• KALAMAZOO, Mich. — Jaimy Gordon's novel "Lord of Misrule," which won the National Book Award for fiction last month, was such a long shot that even Ms.
• They are repressed and misruled, terribly misruled, but they manage to go on with the business of living despite everything.
• But certainly he's been playing this card as a way of deflecting criticism from his own rule or misrule as the case may be.
• It continued to expose the regime's trail of criminal misrule, laying bare the hypocrisy of a president and party that had pauperized the country while claiming to be empowering its people.
• Jerusalem centers on Johnny "Rooster" Byron, a hypertrophied, unemployed Lord of Misrule, currently squatting in a trailer on some forestland in southwest England. Eamon Murphy: Theater Review: Jerusalem
• At the same time the Ottoman Empire, increasingly plagued by corruption and misrule, was sliding ever closer to its eventual disintegration.