How To Use Sybaritic In A Sentence
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Throughout that Cape summer, as the prevailing south-easterlies blew long and warm from the Indian Ocean, they enjoyed a sybaritic life.
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Consider, too, that she was in possession of a jewellery collection that included Faberge's finest and one of Marie Antoinette's diamond necklaces, and it is easy to see why courtiers gave up trying to disguise her sybaritic nature.
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The best suites have seafront terraces complete with king-size day beds and private rooftop terraces from which to enjoy the sunsets in sybaritic style.
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There are new luxury lodges and sybaritic spas to restore the body.
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These characters are monstrous studies in sybaritic excess.
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Having spurned the fleshpots of Glasgow, novelist Carole Morin is enjoying the sybaritic delights of London.
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Herodotus in particular seems to have caught both Ethiopia's sybaritic allure and the exalted drum-driven dawn chants of the churches perfectly.
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By all accounts both Tub O'Lard and Miss Caravanning Monthly 1975 are still enjoying the sybaritic delights of the 'Grace & Favour' residences that were granted to them when they were still Ministers of The Crown, the former enjoying a flat in Admiralty Arch where, as Deputy Prime Minister he is said to have smoothed the ruffled feathers of Vanity Blair and Macavity (and doubtless shagged his secretary whilst the going was good) and the latter at Carlton Gardens.
Archive 2007-07-22
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All my nostalgia for Venice has been evoked by an article in this week's Spectator, in which Stephen Glover describes the sybaritic pleasures of his weekend.
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They have no sympathies with the saints and heroes who have been great through self-abnegation, for such lives are a constant reproach to their own sybaritical tendencies.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
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These three assistants were equal to a business which would harry ten such clerks as those whose sybaritical tastes now swell the columns of the budget.
At the Sign of the Cat and Racket
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I once found myself on a yacht with British wine writer Oz Clarke (okay, there were some sybaritic moments in this arduous working life).
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This affront is exacerbated by the fact that he was in Cabo which the rich Gringos and Mexicans have appropriated from the locals for their sybaritic pleasures while the Mexican laborers who work to support the infrastructure of their exclusionary compounds live in distant tarpaper shacks because the Mexican government has not seen fit to force developers to provide decent housing for workers.
Swimming pools in Mexico
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The beaches haven't washed away, nor have the pockets of political conservatism or the illusion of a sybaritic lifestyle.
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Beirut, Lebanon. Despite the uncertainty in the air and armed troops on the streets, the city clings tenaciously to its sybaritic appeal. Photo: AFP.
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We were starring, fantastically, in our own movie, a romance that Halliburton might have written had he lived long enough to acquire a taste for the more sybaritic pleasures of travel.
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Bridgewater is a splendidly Falstaffian character, tubby "more apple than pear-shaped", big-hearted and sybaritic.
Fathers and Sons
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The overall impression of the early rooms is of a sybaritic indulgence which echoes the richness and confidence of Venetian Renaissance society.
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As Parker says, chastity and self-discipline were never going to come easily to ‘a sceptical, sybaritic, chain-smoking, egotistical and morally confused homosexual atheist’.
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Naturally, such bacchanalian and sybaritic efforts resulted in rock n' roll suicides -- so to speak -- indigenous to the region, such as the deaths of Jimi Hendrix and Steve Took of '70s glam duo T.
Shana Ting Lipton: Rock, Riots, Rebellion and the Real Notting Hill
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Patrick Bingham-Hall's sumptuous photographs certainly made me wish I had the cashflow to be welcomed into these sensual, sybaritic spaces.
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Side-by-side (it takes barely half an hour to get from one to the other) are the sybaritic pleasures of the beach and the heady exertions of the sort of outdoor life enjoyed by the Von Trapp family.
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The scenery had taken a dramatic turn soon after we crossed the Roman causeway, leaving behind the sybaritic hotels, four-handed massages, whitewashed mosques and mud flats of the tourist island.
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Of course the prince was right, but the sybaritic lifestyle of the old tsarist aristocracy invited nemesis.
Times, Sunday Times
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But they wrought their awful romances of crime in lands where the sun of supreme civilization, through a gorgeous evening of Sybaritic luxury, was sinking, with red tints of revolution, into the night of anarchy and national caducity.
The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10)
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After this sybaritic interlude, it's back to the wild west again to a tiny village called Ahipara, which trades in adventure.
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Now the last week in August, with the sybaritic pleasures of the State Fair behind me and the September reading group deadline in front of me, I can no longer avoid the monster.
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These characters are monstrous studies in sybaritic excess.
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We were quite sybaritical as to hours, with breakfast and dinner courses, and mouth-organs and cigarettes and jam between meals.
Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska
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I have to be careful I don't preach to my sybaritic, porky friends with messianic fervour about the joys of healthy eating.
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Italy was a country of inexhaustible charm, sybaritic pleasure, and cultural wealth, of course, but it was not to be taken quite seriously in an economic or political sense.
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There's something downright self-indulgent, hedonistic, even sybaritic about this fine weather.
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So much sybaritic luxury was considered by the neighboring estate owners to be distinctly nouveau riche.
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I will say nothing of those prodigious prodigals, perdendae pecuniae, genitos, as he [1885] taxed Anthony, Qui patrimonium sine ulla fori calumnia amittunt, saith [1886] Cyprian, and [1887] mad sybaritical spendthrifts,
Anatomy of Melancholy
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The enjoyment of water was evident in garden grottoes and nymphae structures in which fountains, cascades and pools were choreographed to create an appropriately sybaritic milieu.
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a chinchilla robe of sybaritic lavishness
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Throughout that Cape summer, as the prevailing south-easterlies blew long and warm from the Indian Ocean, they enjoyed a sybaritic life.
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If you're used to shooting in England, then dove-shooting in northern Argentina seems indecently sybaritic and comfortable.
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Shelby had been saving up words for this:velutinous, sybaritic, hedonic, effulgent .
Second Glance