How To Use Saturnalia In A Sentence
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Its contents were by turns phantasmagorical, hyperreal, surreal, and saturnalian.
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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
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A mild example of this from antiquity was the Roman Saturnalia at the time of the winter solstice.
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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
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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
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Its contents were by turns phantasmagorical, hyperreal, surreal, and saturnalian.
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In ancient Rome, this festival was called the Saturnalia and ran from Dec. 17 to Dec. 24.
A Brief History of Christmas
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But as Christianity spread they were alarmed by the continuing celebration of pagan customs and Saturnalia among their converts.
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Even the counterculture and college saturnalias of the late 1960s did not corrupt my habits.
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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
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A mild example of this from antiquity was the Roman Saturnalia at the time of the winter solstice.
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Saturnalia of Lipsius, who, as an antiquarian, is inclined to excuse the practice of antiquity, (tom.iii. p. 483 — 56 Cod.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Barron Field, writing a poem about the kangaroo in 1819, could only imagine that the beast was pieced together ‘on Creation's holiday ’, a saturnalian respite after the hard work of shaping the northern hemisphere was done.
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From Greek Old Comedy he borrowed the saturnalian pattern of release from restraint through recognition and clarification.
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The Romans celebrated the Sun's ingress into Capricorn as Saturnalia, a festival which welcomed back the return of the Sun's power after the shortest day of the year.
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Her latest collection of short stories offers not only the poetry of Roberts's exquisite sensibilities but a saturnalian experience: the theatre of action is the dirt under our feet and fingernails, the unmediated matter of life and death.
Mud: Stories of Sex and Love by Michèle Roberts
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We live in the midst of what might be called the Saturnalia of the world's history; and in the midst of the swift and easy labor, the inebriety of our continual festivities, we feel no more the tragic in life.
The Women of the Caesars
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Yes, I liked the idea of Saturnalia that greater service done, the bigger the gift; so a person who carries my coffee to the table gets the biggest gift while my banker gets the smallest!
Why I hate December and I ask for just one little thing: running naked downtown
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Grant Callin (wrote two books in the 80s, Saturnalia is my all time favorite)
Who's Your Favorite Hard Science Fiction Author?
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Christmas Allegedly Christmas tree first appeared in ancient Rome in mid-December Saturnalia, the German missionary Nikos in the 8th century AD, dedicated to El Ni?o using P-trees.
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A note from the other world will strike upon the chord of my being, and the spirit which has been dozing within me awakens and fiercely beats at its bars, demanding some nobler thought, some higher aspiration, some wider action, a more saturnalian pleasure, something more than the peasant life can ever yield.
My Brilliant Career
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All midwinter nights and saturnalian chaos, a schizoid descent into dreams and delusions.
Archive 2004-09-01
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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.
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Its contents were by turns phantasmagorical, hyperreal, surreal, and saturnalian.
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When we get to Macrobius' Saturnalia, this tricephalous monster becomes associated with Time, and Serapis is associated with the Sun.
Archive 2005-05-01
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The Romans called this celebration Saturnalia, in honor of their god Saturn.
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The album, titled "Saturnalia," is some heavy-ass neo-gothic gospel.
Boing Boing
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Christmas Allegedly Christmas tree first appeared in ancient Rome in mid-December Saturnalia, the German missionary Nikos in the 8th century AD, dedicated to El Ni?o using P-trees.
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Of course, there were plenty who weren't remotely coy about it: either hoping to try their hand in the saturnalian lucky dip, or already engaged in a mutually knowing conspiracy of flirting, footsie and ward-round eye contact since mid-November.
Boiling a Frog
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As a result, the authorities took steps to curb saturnalian excess.
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In ancient Rome the celebration was called Saturnalia, and from the Pagan Romans we get the decorating of trees with lights and ornaments.
Who Put Christ In The Solstice?
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The streets erupt in a saturnalia of lawlessness, to which the director adds an inspired touch: an escaped elephant from Barnum's circus trumpeting down the rubble-strewn streets.
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Don't worry, we'll return to the good old blue-and-orange as soon as Baby Jesus is finished celebrating the twelve days of saturnalian debauchery with Tiny Tim up at the Burlington Mall.
Philocrites: 'Tis the season to be syncretists.
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I wish I had the time to recount my saturnalian season of excess over the last two weeks, but ye see that gorgeous bloody cover down below?
Happy New Year
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The distinctive feature of the Saturnalia was the inversion of ordinary relationships; the world was turned upside down, and the licence that prevailed, by dint of long usage and inviolable sentiment, imparted to the merry-making a rough and even immoral character.
The Customs of Old England
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Saturnalia celebrated the rebirth of Saturn, the god of the harvest, and the dawn of the new year from the winter's darkness.
