It's also about childhood and the hedonistic pleasures of lollipops and bubblegum pop. |
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If the result bears little musical resemblance to the original, it does capture the same hedonistic menace. |
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Smith refers to one of hedonistic King George's most legendary extravagances. |
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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. |
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There's something downright self-indulgent, hedonistic, even sybaritic about this fine weather. |
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What a message to us, with our extravagant, self-indulgent, hedonistic Western lifestyles. |
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The view in itself is so hedonistic and so filling that it often helps me forsake my regulation morning croissant. |
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The response was overwhelming and the club acquired a reputation for a lively, hedonistic atmosphere. |
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Those kids who were more hedonistic had different experiences according to their gender. |
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But, whether the message is hedonistic, happy-go-lucky or delinquent, there is a dark side to the tropical nightclub scene. |
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She lives an idle hedonistic life, surrounded by fun-loving friends, velvet cushions and a pet pig. |
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Head there during the day, and you will think you are in some kind of narcissistic, hedonistic dreamland. |
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We often describe the sensuality of cuisine as luscious, voluptuous, decadently indulgent, luxurious, hedonistic. |
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Mostly the film celebrates friendship and enjoying life, though it's not as hedonistic as it sounds. |
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It is a movie so jacked up on its own hedonistic excess that it'll sweep viewers along on its wild ride without really providing much to chew on. |
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He will lead a hedonistic life of unrestricted sense enjoyment, lording over everything and everyone. |
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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. |
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Today, Sin City is all about having a decadent and hedonistic great night out. |
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Like just about everyone else in the film, she is hedonistic and blithely self-involved. |
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I didn't really get involved in any of the hedonistic vices that most people got involved in. |
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A camera whirls around a hedonistic fancy dress party where people snort drugs off heaving bosoms. |
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This brings support to the idea that the consumption patterns of French-Canadians are more hedonistic and self-indulgent. |
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We need the world to see all of these things, not those horrible ravers and their hedonistic dance orgies! |
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Thirty years ago Aron worried about a kind of hedonistic self-indulgence characteristic of decadent societies. |
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The whole Latin-lifestyle shtick epitomises youthful sophistication, syncopated libido and relaxed, hedonistic good times. |
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Yet they help put the hedonistic excesses of the decade into proper perspective. |
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So I'm going to savour it awhile and plot some hedonistic scheme to keep me amused. |
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The Devil, of course, defends those hedonistic amenities, whereas Juan, a true Shavian, wants none of them and heads for a thinker's Heaven. |
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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. |
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When it first came out, swing was libidinous, hedonistic devil music. |
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You can sum up Australia's easternmost town by saying it's a melting pot of surf culture, alternative philosophies and hedonistic indulgence. |
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The affair probably dates back to the hedonistic days, of the late Eighties and early Nineties when conspicuous consumption was the order of the day. |
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With independence approaching, the small community was gripped by a wave of hedonistic debauchery that undermined its pretence at prim parasol-and-petticoat gentility. |
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Bullock plays Gwen Cummings, a successful writer who shares an enviably decadent New York lifestyle with her equally hedonistic British boyfriend Jasper. |
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She was also developing an expensive, hedonistic lifestyle, proving she was a chip off the old block, and she graduated into a notorious celebrity. |
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It frequently comments on what it sees as the 'lightness of sentencing', the perversity of jury decisions and the hedonistic life led by prisoners. |
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The LOHAS have dropped the idea of asceticism and added a hedonistic element to sustainability. |
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But bookmakers still expect voters in Britain's hedonistic capital to prefer his eccentric charisma to the mayor's not inconsiderable record. |
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Sexuality must not be presented as being simply a question of hedonistic and irresponsible copulation. |
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You'll love our new age paradise, famous for glorious surfing beaches and a lifestyle that combines hippy chic with hedonistic fun. |
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Mercer brings equal expressive vibrancy to the amorous, hedonistic and sorrowful feelings in these delectable pieces. |
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But this time round Montpellier's foremost electro-rock act have gone upbeat, replacing dark brooding atmospheres with hedonistic pop anthems. |
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They are off on a hedonistic tour across the Australian outback. |
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He has money to indulge his favourite hedonistic pursuits which include first-class air travel, champagne and the culinary delights of the world's best restaurants. |
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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. |
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In retirement I look forward to hedonistic self-indulgence in the form of reading whatever strikes my fancy, landscape gardening, golf, travel, research, and writing. |
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To seize the day could be construed as a stoic, moral or hedonistic call, though not usually a sentimental one. |
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Cressida is known to have a wild side, and the week-long vacation in the Caribbean was a hedonistic affair. |
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He prioritized spiritual values and humanistic principles above market forces and hedonistic impulses. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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According to Jonathan's theory, a long spell of sunshine would make Ireland a nation of lazy, sleepy, hedonistic Sancho Panzas rather than a rising mass of raging rebellious Ches. |
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Nearly a year of constant live performances and recordings, along with a hedonistic lifestyle, were taking their toll on the band. |
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They'll be well looked after, however there won't be the kind of hedonistic freeloading we have seen in the past. |
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The dark red shapes are symbols of a hedonistic society taking over the city, while the background is of an existing cityscape, in this case New York City. |
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Where does the quest for beauty and hedonistic impulses begin and end? |
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Powerful, sleek and open, the wine vintage after vintage acquires greater accuracy, combining the distinction in nature, which bases its hedonistic personality. |
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If the purpose is shown to be preponderantly, explicitly or implicitly, the promotion of irrational hedonistic impulses, the action is objectionable. |
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Bork thought a hedonistic culture would foster anemic economic growth. |
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The hedonistic lifestyle during his 30-plus years as a musician has also led to his teeth rotting, which eventually saw him paying for expensive denture work last year. |
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To describe the products, we call on qualified, trained sensorial experts, capable of specifying the nature and the intensity of the sensations associated with a product, without attaching any hedonistic value to it. |
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The third dimension is linguistic, but quite unlike the hedonistic liberationism of some American open-field poetics. |
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I refer to aggression in the media and to the hedonistic and liberal lifestyle which is currently being promoted and which is subject to no restrictions, rules or prohibitions. |
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The hedonistic world through which she prowls is photographed with a sensual eye that portrays the neighborhood as an intoxicating lotus land whose resident voluptuaries greedily savor the delights of their little paradise. |
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This view of pleasure was hedonistic, as it pursued the thought that pleasure is the highest good in life. |
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Exclusive dedication to necessitous chores without interludes of hedonistic diversion renders Jack a hebetudinous fellow. |
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Quite a number of responses associated secularism with consumerism, i.e., the seeking for profit above all else, and with a hedonistic mentality that corrodes the faith, often without even being noticed. |
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Zadek emphasized that codes would only be a small part of the solution to the unprecedented global problem of extreme poverty on the one hand and hedonistic consumption on the other. |
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This perspective, which in some ways reflects our dominant view of consumption in our culture, focuses on the hedonistic and egocentric satisfaction that is derived from shopping and material acquisition. |
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The gig captured a national mood that was classless, brashly hedonistic and eager to vote out a tired Conservative government the following spring. |
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But I'd rather chasteness be the problem than the kind of hypersexual, shallowly hedonistic image of gay men presented in so many television shows and movies past. |
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Next up is Liverpool's Cream Classics at the city's cathedral, which will revisit the 90s scouse superclub's behemothic reign in a style that's more reverential than hedonistic. |
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Gatecrashing a hedonistic world of pill-popping eccentrics and mad-for-it DJs, Carl and Sunny become unwitting pawns in a deadly game of blackmail and deceit. |
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American conservative critics, particularly in the 1960s and 1970s, saw Bond as a nihilistic, hedonistic, and amoral character that challenged family values. |
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I won't allow some hedonistic shitlord to destroy my family. |
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Though few contemporary ethicists today would agree with all elements of Mill's hedonistic moral philosophy, utilitarianism remains a live option in ethical theory today. |
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It was a part of Buddha's first sermon, where he presented the Noble Eightfold Path that was a 'middle way' between the extremes of asceticism and hedonistic sense pleasures. |
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