(1) Directed by An Education’s Lone Scherfig and adapted by Laura Wade from her play Posh, The Riot Club is substantially inspired by Oxford University’s Bullingdon Club, the exclusive dining society whose tailcoated men behaving badly enjoy debauched bacchanalia at the expense of plebs.
(2) But as the bacchanalia faded into the heaviness of prison, the hangover hung deep in one man’s regretful sigh: “Damn, I should’ve never gone into that liquor store.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Baltimore riot.
Saturnalia
Definition:
(n. pl.) The festival of Saturn, celebrated in December, originally during one day, but afterward during seven days, as a period of unrestrained license and merriment for all classes, extending even to the slaves.
(n. pl.) Hence: A period or occasion of general license, in which the passions or vices have riotous indulgence.
Example Sentences:
(1) In another act of Christmas violence, unidentified arsonists tried to torch one of the Freedom from Religion Foundation's billboards that proclaimed "Keep Saturn in Saturnalia" – a reference to an ancient celebration of the Roman god of agriculture.
(2) Professor Israel Gutman , an Auschwitz survivor and prominent historian, recalls that "feasts and saturnalias were celebrated at kapos' and block elders' quarters.