How To Use Saturnalia In A Sentence
- Its contents were by turns phantasmagorical, hyperreal, surreal, and saturnalian.
- I don't know what kind of hairbrained vow he had tied up in it, but with the little ceremony disappeared every trace of restraint, and we plunged head over ears into the saturnalia of delights that was an old-time county fair. Hillsboro People
- A mild example of this from antiquity was the Roman Saturnalia at the time of the winter solstice.
- Like the pale reflection of power thus accorded to bondsmen at the Saturnalia was the mock kingship for which freemen cast lots at the same season. Chapter 58. Human Scapegoats in Classical Antiquity. § 3. The Roman Saturnalia
- Lilwatchergirl: I liked the idea of Saturnalia too, as to start it, all the senators would stand on the steps of the forum and take off the red sash, showing that for the time of the festival, all were equal, there was no rank or position due to wealth or power. Why I hate December and I ask for just one little thing: running naked downtown
- Its contents were by turns phantasmagorical, hyperreal, surreal, and saturnalian.
- In ancient Rome, this festival was called the Saturnalia and ran from Dec. 17 to Dec. 24. A Brief History of Christmas
- But as Christianity spread they were alarmed by the continuing celebration of pagan customs and Saturnalia among their converts.
- Even the counterculture and college saturnalias of the late 1960s did not corrupt my habits.
- Jugganatha, at Puri, which is a spring festival of Vedic origin, is a kind of Saturnalia, in which the bonds of social order are loosened and the standards of decency are laid aside. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals