How To Use Hedonist In A Sentence

Shanghai Baby is peopled with nimble-witted hedonists. From the point of view of traditional mainstream society, they are moral degenerates and self-serving rebels.
The answer, of course, lies in a word unfamiliar to as many fitness enthusiasts as it is to the bacchanalian hedonist - moderation.
If the result bears little musical resemblance to the original, it does capture the same hedonistic menace.
lives of unending hedonistic delight
The Windsor Beauties, painted for the Duchess of York (1662-8; Hampton Court, Royal Coll.), handsomely déshabillé and languorous, successfully capture the hedonistic climate of the court.

Longworth, a self-proclaimed "hedonist," used to say. NYT > Home Page
What he clearly wasn't counting on was what his girlfriend, the young, hedonistic supermarket shelf-stacker, would do next. Times, Sunday Times
This idea of a hedonistic lifestyle doesn't exist. The Sun
The response was overwhelming and the club acquired a reputation for a lively, hedonistic atmosphere.
The platinum blonde American was doing what legendary beauties did best in those days - living the life of a committed hedonist.
The best part was undoubtedly the sirloin steak with fresh grated horseradish and parsley butter; pink, juicy, hedonistically tender, with an intoxicating scent and flavour.
The hedonistic pleasures of languor and warmth - going lightly dressed, swimming in balmy seas at dusk, talking and drinking under the stars - are just as appealing.
It caters for invalids as well as hedonists, its waters famed for their efficacy with eye and bladder problems, and the menu is a gastronome's delight.
It is important to make clear that as the existence of the hedonistic side in every spiritual activity has given rise to the confusion between the aesthetic activity and the useful or pleasurable, so the existence, or, better, the possibility of constructing this physical side, has generated the confusion between _aesthetic_ expression and expression Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic
His Batman rasps his lines in a voice that's deeper and hammier than ever, and when Bruce Wayne has to pretend to be a mindlessly hedonistic playboy, his smirk carries a trace of Dubya entitlement. Undefined
I got to the door, got the cursory glance up and down, and was admitted to the hedonistic multi-level entertainment palace that is the Shed.
Funloving hedonists who have spent three years doing nothing but drinking and cavorting in seedy nightclubs suddenly become paragons of academic virtue.
Hedonists have appropriated the term happiness as an equivalent to the totality of pleasurable or agreeable feeling. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
The most typical image of him is a mondaine hedonist, coolly sucking on a Gitane while caressing a ravishing doll. GreenCine Daily: Shorts, 11/30.
You could be heavily reward dependent, indifferent to novelty, and mildly harm avoidant—a stay-at-home hedonist, in other words. Mind Wide Open
It is not clear how the actress, known for her hedonistic lifestyle, became a champion of a party with conservative religious views. Times, Sunday Times
The word Crimea, Krym, sounds like “cream”—sumptuous, hedonistic, melting on my tongue, with a sweet aftertaste of decadence and longing. A Mountain of Crumbs
A novel that provides readers with "honorary doctoral degrees in ecclesiastical history," describes Jesus as a sexual hedonist, and claims the Catholic Church is built on lies. Is TDVC "just a novel"? No way, says the Chicago Tribune
He crossbred visual panache and hedonistic flair, notably in "Sign of the Cross" (1932), with a lesbian dance sequence, a lithe Claudette Colbert bathing in milk, and Charles Laughton playing an extravagantly gay Nero. Review of "Empire of Dreams," Scott Eyman's biography of Cecil B. DeMille
The Picture of Dorian Gray fantasizes a world where middle-aged hedonists can be forever boys, equated in a timeless plane composed half out of lust, half out of the wish-fulfilling visions of the fairy story.
Hedonistic accommodation sunshine coast that as unreconciled questioner strongbox sulkily and neglectfully unmanful, our overhead with the grossulariaceae is callipygous. Rational Review
Hedonistic dissipation well may have condemned the existing Europeans to infecundity and extinction, but that does not prevent Europe from getting new ones.
Smith refers to one of hedonistic King George's most legendary extravagances.
And if you get tired of all that festival stuff, we bring you a guide to Edinburgh that will point you in the direction of more hedonistic pursuits.
This is sometimes referred to as a hedonist view of existence, and for one reason or another practically no one is persuaded that there’s anything to it. Archive 2007-10-01
I didn't really get involved in any of the hedonistic vices that most people got involved in.
We hedonists have a mythology of our own, symbolized by a mythopoetic demi-god who loves a good drink and frowns on those who would keep him from it.
There's something downright self-indulgent, hedonistic, even sybaritic about this fine weather.
Democracy had arrived in our country Spain and the most playful, hedonistic side of the Spanish character had exploded ... you could say that even grief was joyful ... thus the Baroque style, the humor and the colorfulness of the story and its characters. Patricia Zohn: CultureZohn: Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
The view in itself is so hedonistic and so filling that it often helps me forsake my regulation morning croissant.
And here's an interview with the hedonistic San Francisco liberal mag, Salon, in which she says ‘I was an unwed mother for ten years.’
Veritas is a now seven-year-old restaurant built around a pretty amazing wine collection of what the current vernacular calls hedonistic wines. Augieland:
We are a people who in equal parts are adventurers, skilled craftspeople, hedonists, sensualists, survivalists, and environmentalists.
And predictably, there have been warnings that the new hedonism itself might be a touch too hedonistic, posing a potential risk to people's health and wellbeing.
My dad built a house out there in 1954 and I led a hedonistic and idyllic life up in the hills. Times, Sunday Times
Why are the statistics about education debt, house prices, high rents and job insecurity left out of the picture, while the armchair-theories about profligate hedonists get so much airplay?
They are off on a hedonistic tour across the Australian outback.
Should I be congratulated for being a self-indulgent hedonist?
For Socrates, the appetitive hedonist is a blissfully ignorant Sisyphus forever doomed to the cruel pleasure of scratching a persistent itch.
By the ‘last chance to dance’ finale it was all I could do not to run to G-A-Y immediately and dance the night away in hedonistic bliss. …spicing up your life « Sven’s guide to…
But her hedonistic lifestyle spiralled into alcoholism and drug abuse. Times, Sunday Times
I also don't like how Lester and Carolyn are both indulging in hedonistic behavior but somehow only Carolyn's the materialistic weasel. Over / Under: American Beauty « FirstShowing.net
It frequently comments on what it sees as the 'lightness of sentencing', the perversity of jury decisions and the hedonistic life led by prisoners.
The hedonist has a privileged place in ethics; his is the case which stands if every other falls.
Instead, I'll yabber on about how I enjoyed an extremely hedonistic weekend that was so unrelenting I had to neglect writing entries here for two whole days.
Charles's cousin Jasper breaks off from his final exams to chide him about his now-hedonistic lifestyle.
Now, in the hedonistic playground of artists, actors, and aristocrats, Jules is losing her closely guarded heart to a man without identity. Friday Book Club
His hedonistic lifestyle had severe consequences.
Today, Sin City is all about having a decadent and hedonistic great night out.
A camera whirls around a hedonistic fancy dress party where people snort drugs off heaving bosoms.
Her character, Anna, is one of the great female parts - too flinty to be dismissed as a ladette, too smart to be written off as a hedonistic bimbo.
The whole Latin-lifestyle shtick epitomises youthful sophistication, syncopated libido and relaxed, hedonistic good times.
This brings support to the idea that the consumption patterns of French-Canadians are more hedonistic and self-indulgent.
A libertine is a hedonist, a devotee of personal pleasure, whereas a libertarian is one who defends the libertine and his lifestyle against the heavy hand of government.
Callicles 'contempt for justice as normally understood turns out to involve four main ingredients: a critique of conventional justice, an account of ˜justice according to nature™, a theory of the virtues, and a hedonistic conception of the good. Callicles and Thrasymachus
Head there during the day, and you will think you are in some kind of narcissistic, hedonistic dreamland.
See Laurie, I told you this olive oil bath with bread, would tempt me in hedonistic ways: D Two Recipes for Bagna Càuda (Δύο Συνταγές για Μπάνια Καούντα)
The stylishly erratic gardens are a hedonist's delight, where Ferdinand thoughtfully provided a bosky chalet for his fat German mistress.
MCCARTHY: I was such a hedonist in college, always on the golf course and never really studied very much and kind of frittered it all away. All of One Peace: Essays on Nonviolence
Bullock plays Gwen Cummings, a successful writer who shares an enviably decadent New York lifestyle with her equally hedonistic British boyfriend Jasper.
Over the last few weeks I've been slowly getting my life back on the straight and narrow after a year or so of hedonistic debauchery.
He is perhaps the only perfectly frank and unmitigated "hedonist" which European literature at this hour offers. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations
He crossbred visual panache and hedonistic flair, notably in "Sign of the Cross" (1932), with a lesbian dance sequence, a lithe Claudette Colbert bathing in milk and Charles Laughton playing an extravagantly gay Nero. Review of "Empire of Dreams," Scott Eyman's biography of Cecil B. DeMille
Charles's cousin Jasper breaks off from his final exams to chide him about his now-hedonistic lifestyle.
Heracles there appears a philanthropical as well as an ascetic theme, a hedonistic attraction towards a sim - pler, more natural way of life as a reaction against artificiality and excessive civilization. CYNICISM
The body of a hedonist is the coffin of a dead soul and there's no soul more dead than one which died young. Archive 2008-02-01
Those kids who were more hedonistic had different experiences according to their gender.
It is worth reminding ourselves when times look bleak that we, the passionate, insatiable bibliolaters are in good company with readers everywhere who treat themselves to the hedonistic diversion of words on the page.
When it first came out, swing was libidinous, hedonistic devil music.
It is surely a grim coincidence that this series, portraying footballers as filthy-rich hedonistic schemers, began a new run in the very week that Scottish football eyeballed a financial abyss.
Like just about everyone else in the film, she is hedonistic and blithely self-involved.
A libertine is a hedonist, a devotee of personal pleasure, whereas a libertarian is one who defends the libertine and his lifestyle against the heavy hand of government.
They hurl themselves around in hedonistic spasms, a gangly sprawl of boots, limbs and hair, clad in more skin-tight black than a roomful of rock hacks.
One of life's little ironies is that religious people often accuse nonreligious people of being hedonistic. Valerie Tarico: God's Emotions: What Are Emotions Anyway? (Part 4)
He realises that self-denial can all too easily become self-glorification, but he is oddly blind to the hedonistic streak in epistemological narratives of extinguishing the self for the sake of fact.
It can readily be seen that all three of the writers cited are utilitarians, and the last two are what have been characterized as hedonistic utilitarians. A Handbook of Ethical Theory
Prof. Nordhaus is respectful toward both national economic accounting and hedonic psychology (from the Greek for pleasure, as in "hedonist"). The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
The “consequences” of the hedonist or pleasure-pain theory of human nature were progressively reinter - preted as the sanctions of utilitarian reformist theories. ASSOCIATION OF IDEAS
With the political forecast comparatively sunny recently, things are visibly on the up - the grand old city centre cleaned out and dressed up to receive the growing surge of investors, visitors and weekending hedonists.
We'll become more focused on desires and gratification, more hedonistically focused on material things.
On this Easter Saturday I really wanted to write something that might touch on some spiritual questions, such as why recent surveys tell us that we have become a nation of happy hedonists.
We are a people who in equal parts are adventurers, skilled craftspeople, hedonists, sensualists, survivalists, and environmentalists.
I am a hedonist - and working out in a gym offers more suffering than pleasure for me, so it only makes sense to avoid it.
The dance floor is packed with sweaty, tanned and gorgeous disco hedonists grooving to a mix of Top 40 chart beats as well as more eclectic New York-meets-LA club tunes.
After the car keys parties of the 1970s, hedonists are nowadays more likely to opt for pursuits such as ‘dogging’ - having sex in car parks while voyeurs watch.
It's also about childhood and the hedonistic pleasures of lollipops and bubblegum pop.
It's too easy to blame divorce and hedonistic singleton lifestyles when we have in some senses merely traded new kinds of isolation for old. Times, Sunday Times
The Windsor Beauties, painted for the Duchess of York (1662-8; Hampton Court, Royal Coll.), handsomely déshabillé and languorous, successfully capture the hedonistic climate of the court.
Hedonistic, self-indulgent, voluptuous societies succumb to their enemies and go under.
He represents the side of rock music that is amoral, hedonistic, self-serving and red in tooth and claw, offering in place of noble aspirations a guiltier, more primal thrill: the licence not to give a damn. Rock's fake rebels
The biopic will also cover his hedonistic lifestyle and descent into alcoholism. Times, Sunday Times
Material possessions, hedonistic pleasures make people feel elated, but do not bring a deep sense of blissful happiness to the heart and soul. Dr T.P.Chia
The response was overwhelming and the club acquired a reputation for a lively, hedonistic atmosphere.
Her character, Anna, is one of the great female parts - too flinty to be dismissed as a ladette, too smart to be written off as a hedonistic bimbo.
She lives an idle hedonistic life, surrounded by fun-loving friends, velvet cushions and a pet pig.
Aristotle talked about "eudaimonia" ? happiness as human flourishing and purpose to life ? rather than the modern hedonistic concept. David Cameron aims to make happiness the new GDP
A generation will grow up even more fickle than before, hyper consumers, hedonists.
Mostly the film celebrates friendship and enjoying life (which seems to be having friends, sex, food and wine), though it's not as hedonistic as it sounds.
Thirty years ago Aron worried about a kind of hedonistic self-indulgence characteristic of decadent societies.
Firstly, the youth of today do not understand the meaning of the word temperance, an extra hour's drinking will simply mean an extra four pints of premium strength lager quaffed by these hedonistic louts.
In essence, temperance means the exercise of self-control that, in general, would lead one to avoid and resist the temptation to overindulge in hedonistic behaviours.
It is a high-octane world of deals screamed down phones and a hedonistic lifestyle out of hours. Times, Sunday Times
The lifestyle is more suited to young hedonists than families. Times, Sunday Times
Aside from that, I'd say a dinner that would tempt you in hedonistic ways is well worth eating! Two Recipes for Bagna Càuda (Δύο Συνταγές για Μπάνια Καούντα)
I find it interesting that Theists apparently all want to run amok in hedonistic escatasy but they resist only because God is watching. Contentment
It you like wines that hedonistically suggest chocolate and vanilla flavors, you'll love this thick, satisfying wine.
But the underlying issue here is about a woman who once allegedly described herself as a ‘virgin politician’, etching out characters who fall passionately and hedonistically in love.
So I'm going to savour it awhile and plot some hedonistic scheme to keep me amused.
Material possessions, hedonistic pleasures make people feel elated, but do not bring a deep sense of blissful happiness to the heart and soul. Dr T.P.Chia
It caters for invalids as well as hedonists, its waters famed for their efficacy with eye and bladder problems, and the menu is a gastronome's delight.
We are hedonists, living life for the sole purpose of wallowing in its myriad pleasures.
The stroppiest, most talented and fearsomely hedonistic Banana had left to marry the beardy one from the Eurythmics, and the assumption was that she'd hung up her dungarees to become a Rock Wife. Music news, reviews, comment and features | guardian.co.uk
With independence approaching, the small community was gripped by a wave of hedonistic debauchery that undermined its pretence at prim parasol-and-petticoat gentility.
We often describe the sensuality of cuisine as luscious, voluptuous, decadently indulgent, luxurious, hedonistic.
But, whether the message is hedonistic, happy-go-lucky or delinquent, there is a dark side to the tropical nightclub scene.
Still, there are sharply etched performances from Duncan Bell as the agonised Christopher, Hugh Ross as his hedonistic brother and Juliet Cadzow as a maternal nightclub hostess.
For example, the reward for rock stars is surely the wealth, celebrity lifestyle and other hedonistic trappings that go with a successful career in music. Times, Sunday Times
The mafia infiltration and grubby money-laundering is a far cry from the hedonistic era portrayed in Fellini's 1960 classic, which starred the Italian actor Marcello Mastroianni as a society reporter and gave the world the word 'paparazzo'. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
Epicurus, who was known as a hedonist, didn't argue that the pursuit of more and more pleasure was the key to happiness.
There was a shift towards a more casual, private, and hedonistic style of life.
I was exposed to a whole new way of life, and a glamorous, hedonistic life it was. Times, Sunday Times
It's curious, also, that any felon, drug addict, or recovering hedonist can loudly proclaim a sudden embrace of Jesus and be welcomed without doubt by leaders of the religious right.
But Gavin Sacks of Cornell pointed out a larger challenge: cabernet franc is not a hedonistic grape compared to consumer favorites like cabernet sauvignon. Finger Lakes Wine
Exclusive dedication to necessitious chores without interludes of hedonistic diversion renders John a hebetudinous fellow raincoaster Free fortune cookies! « raincoaster
Thus, whereas the Christian heaven is purely spiritual - "they shall neither marry nor give into marriage" (Matthew 22: 30) and not necessarily "enticing" - some Muslim accounts of paradise are downright hedonistic. Writings from the Middle East Forum and Middle East Quarterly.
It is a high-octane world of deals screamed down phones and a hedonistic lifestyle out of hours. Times, Sunday Times
In the show, Philip J. Fry, a pizza boy who is accidentally cryogenically frozen until the 31st century, lives in "New New York" and makes some odd friends, including a hedonistic robot, a curvaceous one-eyed ship captain and a professor who happens to be his very distant nephew. TV on DVD
It's why Smith's hedonistically enrapt souls appear anything but abject in their celluloid, silverprint and c-print paradises. G. Roger Denson: Jack Smith and the Aesthetics of Camp in an Era of Political Correctness
Susana Tosca smiled evilly, and declared: "I will introduce you not as a narratologist nor a ludologist, but a hedonist. The Hedonist
Yet, like hedonists around the world, motorists here love swanky cars and bikes.
Hedonistic, self-indulgent, voluptuous societies succumb to their enemies and go under.
Social climbers are prone to telling lies; over- ambitious, greedy, and hedonistic people are more likely to lack honesty and truthfulness. Dr T.P.Chia
Thirty years ago Aron worried about a kind of hedonistic self-indulgence characteristic of decadent societies.
Why did socialist feminists accuse us, at best, of being hedonistic female chauvinists, and at worst, Fascists?
She didn't fall for any of those phony ‘help-the-homeless’ funds that the sick hedonists kept trying to sell to dupes.
Hedonistic accommodation sunshine coast that as unreconciled questioner strongbox sulkily and neglectfully unmanful, our overhead with the grossulariaceae is callipygous. Rational Review
From feminist separatists to hippy dropouts and self-indulgent hedonists, the movement soon fragmented.
What a message to us, with our extravagant, self-indulgent, hedonistic Western lifestyles.
He will lead a hedonistic life of unrestricted sense enjoyment, lording over everything and everyone.
Despite his reputation for debauchery, his rumored orgies seem to have been fictional, and the supposedly hedonistic pope followed what Duffy calls a "spartan and coarse diet" heavy on sardines. Scholars: TV's Borgias saga true to sinful pope
There is another Aesthetic, which has been called hedonistic, utilitarian, moralistic, and so on, according to its various manifestations. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic
Epicurus, oddly in contrast here with his modern hedonistic followers, advocates free will and modifies the strict determinism of the atomists, whose physics he accepts, by ascribing to the atoms a clinamen, a faculty of random deviation in their movements. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
Still, there are sharply etched performances from Duncan Bell as the agonised Christopher, Hugh Ross as his hedonistic brother and Juliet Cadzow as a maternal nightclub hostess.
Is there any space for ideas like honour, responsibility and service in a hedonist or Epicurean philosophy?
Eucken has turned with equal severity against the aestheticism which is preached so loudly in our days and which «infects only reflective and pleasure-loving hedonists». Nobel Prize in Literature 1908 - Presentation Speech
The movie concentrates on Rochester's lascivious and debauched adventures in London, gallivanting about with other aristocratic hedonists.
Both, for obscure hedonistic purposes, assume the false name Ernest only to find that their respective paramours, Cecily and Gwendolen, will spurn any man who does not go by that name.
Yet they help put the hedonistic excesses of the decade into proper perspective.
We need the world to see all of these things, not those horrible ravers and their hedonistic dance orgies!

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