Dissolute men pine for wives who have ditched them, and dissolute women carp at no-good boyfriends.
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That's because he is well aware of psychedelics' dissolute reputation.
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Her Lee is dissolute, unsociable, mildly monstrous and somehow deeply sympathetic.
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His "Satyricon" is an extravagant classic tale set in drunken, dissolute Rome.
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Check. Just like the dissolute aristocracy, apparently, he "gets married all the time".
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Slater was deemed "undesirable", with his foreign accent, his Jewish background, his dissolute
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"La Dolce Viva" depicted its voluble subject as befuddled, destitute, dissolute and promiscuous.
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Because of the unlimited riches it was often described as a dissolute place.
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Her songwriting tends toward narratives about dissolute nights and fragmented romantic and sexual connections.
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Debbie Harry doesn't sound dissolute as she once did — instead she's a little tentative.
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I think she equated that with alcoholism, drug addiction, divorce, and other dissolute forms of life.
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C refuses to believe that she'll end up like A, dissolute and despising her own child.
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" Thomas Jefferson advocated confinement in poorhouses for vagabonds who "waste their time in idle and dissolute courses.
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Valentin's nights out in Rome may have been dissolute, but the nights he painted are suffused with pain.
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Daphne's ex-husband, Holden, a dissolute WASP, apparently pursued her only so that he could receive an inheritance.
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Growing up a "wild, dissolute youth" he devoured horror comics, listened to David Bowie and took long bush walks.
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Kif is approached by Ray, a fast-living, dissolute childhood friend, with the offer of a real writing gig.
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Streaming on the Criterion Channel, Kanopy and Amazon Prime La Dolce Vita tells of a dissolute celebrity reporter, Marcello.
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He also led a "dissolute life" and was a "demon from hell," according to the writings of historian Ferdinand Gregorovius.
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Among them was the idea that Mozart, who died in 1791 at 35, was dissolute and destitute at the end.
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The highly allegorical drama centers on the prosperous and dissolute character of Jedermann, whose callousness and appetites have offended heaven.
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His father, James Hamilton, the dissolute fourth son of a Scottish laird, had washed up on the island of St. Kitts.
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He built his reputation on a dirty and dissolute image, focusing on sex toys, drinking and ornate literary descriptions of testicles.
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And luckily for our current cultural moment, the Brontë sisters come with a dissolute brother tailor-made to represent the patriarchy.
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On film, he played the boss of Chevy Chase's dissolute newspaperman Irwin Fletcher in "Fletch" (1985) and its sequel, "Fletch Lives" (1989).
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That novel told the story of Monty, a dissolute bisexual viscount in a fantasy Britain, and his adventures on his Grand Tour.
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But this shameless undertaking is now precisely the kind of dissolute conduct we've come to expect from the occupants 1 Hacker Way.
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The letter calls King "a complete fraud"; "a dissolute, abnormal moral imbecile"; and a "sexual psychotic," then urges King to kill himself.
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Romance arrives in the person of young Teddy Laurence (Timothée Chalamet), the slightly dissolute grandson of a wealthy Concord widower (Chris Cooper).
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" The dissolute, depressive Krusty (Dan Castellaneta), a smoking clown like Flunky, was a breakout star on "The Tracey Ullman Show" and "The Simpsons.
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A dissolute, flaky, noisy persona may have made Amy famous, but underneath are fierce loyalty and enviable discipline, conveyed in a librarian's hush.
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Bad company, dissolute habits, egotism, novel reading ... the list of reasons "lunatics" were admitted to an asylum in West Virginia seems all-encompassing.
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He enjoys the life of a dissolute deity, living in a palace and with the power to kill or bed any of his subjects.
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I can't do it without crying about my dissolute youth, where I was busy not getting crossword puzzles published in The New York Times.
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Under John Crowley's direction, this Sydney Theater Company production stars Cate Blanchett stars as an unmoored widow, with Richard Roxburgh as a dissolute comrade.
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Robert de Montesquiou, for example, notorious as Proust's inspiration for the dissolute Baron de Charlus, gently romped with little Anatole on his visits to the Mallarmés.
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Suds A job at a Labatt brewery came with a perk that seems like the stuff of fiction written for dissolute teenagers: free beer for life.
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In the novel, she gives herself a tattered, dissolute glamour — she's wearing a rakish rose-brown man's fedora and one of her mother's threadbare silk dresses.
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Together, they make scrappy and dissolute music with more action than density; melodies break down quickly, but the band hardly ever loses its conviction or cohesion.
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Nearby, she mesmerizes as a dissolute punk princess spouting mostly inspiring words of Manuel Maples Arce, the Mexican founder of the Dada-like Stridentism in 1921.
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John Dos Passos is there to support the Republican cause, and a young Robert Capa, and a cast of elegantly dissolute prostitutes, one missing a leg.
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Helping Kane is Sy (Kellan Lutz), an escaped convict who has led a revolt at the prison, and two dissolute stepsiblings (Isabel Lucas and Luke Ford).
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But J. Paul II and Gail's marriage splits up, and Gail moves away from her dissolute ex-husband, retaining only custody of the children and child support.
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Indeed, were it not for one tournament, "El Pibe de Oro" would be regarded as a supremely gifted player whose dissolute social life ultimately undermined his talent.
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In the Hooters parking lot during tournament week, fans line up for selfies with John Daly , the dissolute pro and avatar of mid-round cigarettes and booze.
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At the novel's close, in a gesture that anticipates Lucio Fontana, Dorian stabs the canvas, which by now has become a hideous reflection of his dissolute life.
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The mingling of worship and drama, of course, is older than Christianity; in ancient Greece, the Athenians paid tribute to the dissolute god Dionysus by holding theater festivals.
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Indeed, worry over the tendencies of dissolute men was a key reason women's suffragists of the late 19th century did not see abortion as the panacea their successors have.
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And despite Coolidge rousting many of the crooked cronies who had gathered themselves to feast on the spoils of the dissolute Harding's presidency, Republicans were quite pleased with Coolidge.
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The book starts out on a remote island in the Indian Ocean, where a dissolute sea captain named Van Toch discovers a race of large and oddly intelligent newts.
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He's as likely to blow a startlingly swinging chorus over a jazz standard as he is to unleash a searing blast of sound over a dissolute, free-jazz backing.
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Darulaman Palace is a lot more than an unpretty face, a result of its last four dissolute decades: It encompasses the sweep of almost nine decades of Afghan history.
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Jojo and Yorki head off to Hitler Youth camp, run by the vaguely dissolute Captain Klenzendorf (Sam Rockwell) and his lackeys, Finkel (Alfie Allen) and Fräulein Rahm (Rebel Wilson).
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But the dissolute Sebastian — whose Bernie Madoff-like father has just been sent to prison for defrauding his moneyed peers out of millions — keeps Charlie at arm's length, playing coy.
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The other genuine comic spark comes from Bill Nighy, playing a washed-up, dissolute rock star named Billy Mack, who is trying for a comeback with a treacly Christmas record.
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And when he does get to Belushi, it's already kind of this seedy dissolute scene, and Belushi is with this woman, Cathy Evelyn Smith, who has a kind of checkered past.
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I'm sick and tired of this city not being able to enjoy a nice spring day without the prospect of absolute mayhem and carnage committed by a dissolute and wicked few.
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"Destroyer" was among the most unexpected, just because the premise — Ms. Kidman plays Erin Bell, a dissolute, alcoholic Los Angeles detective with a sordidly violent past — sounded preposterous, even faintly risible.
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Dreamlike snippets of their louche and violent youths give depth to a portrait of the pair, who must reckon with the remains of dissolute years spent passing between Ireland and Spain.
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As part of his artistic transformation, Ng Chung had abandoned his realist training and thrown himself into neo-Expressionism, sinking into Lan Kwai Fong's dissolute bar scene like Toulouse-Lautrec into Montmartre.
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A wealthy prince in Aquitaine, Jaufré is tired of his dissolute aristocratic life and, spurred by a pilgrim's tale, falls in love with someone he's never met: Clémence, the Countess of Tripoli.
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You have The Tenant of Wildfell Hall's Helen resolving to redeem her dissolute husband through love and good works, as a woman should, and finding instead that he has ruined her life.
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"Even those who have dissipated their fortunes in dissolute living — through gaming, harlots, excessive luxury, gluttony and gambling — should be given food, for no one should die of hunger," Vives wrote in 1526.
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Following an investigation, the Army announced Friday that Harrington would lose one rank and be forced to retire with one star for what it called "dissolute and immoral" behavior, according to USA Today.
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Some of the best scenes are between Beth and her dissolute mother, a pill-head divorcée at the crossroads between Eugene O'Neill and "The Real Housewives," who is a different kind of coach.
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Jerusalem brilliantly interrogated Mark Rylance's dissolute main character to argue that he was, perhaps, not a brutish chav but rather one of the last great English renegades, from a long and epic tradition.
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He was still locked in conversation with her adversary—the Englishman—a middle-aged dissolute-looking character she'd always found physically repellent with his slack, pot-bellied body and his big yellow uneven teeth.
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Splendid Georgian townhouses formed the backdrop to what was for much of the 1960s and 1970s a playground for bohemians and punks; the dissolute and the dangerous; David Bowie, Malcolm Maclaren and Vivienne Westwood.
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In a miscalculated bid at relevancy, it also ditches Shakespeare's poetry and prose for a generic hero's journey, one that leans hard on Timothée Chalamet's droopy charisma as the dissolute prince turned warrior-king.
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Henry Montague — Henry to his terrible father, Monty to his friends — is a dissolute young viscount on his grand tour through Europe, accompanied by his best friend Percy and his intellectual little sister Felicity.
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Father John Misty is a singer-songwriter who sings about being a dissolute drunk in Los Angeles in a way that's joking, not joking, and joking about the possibility of being in on the joke.
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Word of the Day adjective: unrestrained by convention or morality adjective: recklessly wasteful noun: a dissolute man in fashionable society noun: a recklessly extravagant consumer _________ The word profligate has appeared in 31 articles on nytimes.
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Such royal hypocrisy may seem to be the norm among autocratic rulers sitting atop oceans of oil who place no limits on their own dissolute lifestyles and yet impose cruel Islamic law on their subjects.
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Kate Moss, the model whose personal style and penchant for dissolute musicians is chronicled with obsessive attention by the British news media, is often described as the heir to Marianne Faithfull, another Stones paramour/muse.
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Percival is a dissolute loon who gets about 50 percent too much screen time, and he's more a help than a hindrance in Broughton's mission to recover a secret list of informers embedded within East Germany.
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The producers of the film version of "Death Notice" dealt with potential political sensitivity by shifting the action to Hong Kong, which is considered by Communist propaganda to be thoroughly dissolute after decades of colonial rule.
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The first is the one the media love to harp on: that his inability to get more than once through the lineup without problem is a sign of dissolute living and improper focus on The Game.
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As Caixin Media, Caixin Weekly Journals and other media outlets released more and more reports on the dissolute ways of Bo Xilai, Zhou Yongkang, Ling Jihua and other former senior officials, it sparked ordinary Chinese citizens' curiosity.
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Poland's Jaroslaw Kaczynski and Hungary's Mr. Orban both thrive on claiming that their history, identity and traditional values are under attack from a liberal, dissolute and know-it-all West — and, more specifically, from a faceless Brussels bureaucracy.
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A dissolute literato named Farewell justifies Urrutia's sellout by telling him the tale of an Austro-Hungarian shoemaker who wasted his life attempting to erect a mountaintop monument to every single hero of the past, present and future.
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In November 215, John Bingham, the seventh Earl of Lucan, a dashing but dissolute gambler, supposedly mistook his children's nanny for his estranged wife in the dimly lit basement of their London home and bludgeoned her to death.
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Cities turned into riot zones, a preferred tactic of Black Lives Matter leftists to manipulate the genuine misery and dissolute practices of our urban ghettos, are now on the receiving end of what amounts to a hefty ransom payment.
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" But even in his dissolute state, Cully would much prefer this harsh assessment than what appears under the name of the good-looking burglar William Beatty: "He is a mean thief, and is called by other thieves a 'squealer.
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Gerwig doesn't ask us to try to consider either of these marriages to be the stuff of fairy tale romance — even with a fully sympathetic Amy and a dissolute Laurie, even with a young and handsome and respectful Bhaer.
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It's as if Mangan couldn't decide whether to write a homage to Donna Tartt's "The Secret History" or a sun-drenched novel of dissolute Westerners abroad in the tradition of Patricia Highsmith and Paul Bowles, so she tried to do both.
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A politically minded caper by the Russian writer and dissident Boris Akunin, known for his detective novels, it starts with a dissolute Hamlet exercising a little droit du seigneur, groping an alarmed Ophelia in plain sight of her father and brother.
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Huysmans's "Against Nature" (1884), widely considered a masterpiece of the decadent movement, tells the story of a dissolute aristocrat who devotes his life to aesthetic pursuits, such as eating all-black meals and hanging around with a giant jewel-encrusted tortoise.
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Outsized personalities abound: the "dangerously monarchical" George Washington; the profligate, "sexy" Arnold, whose ego exceeded his status; the dissolute British general William Howe; the duplicitous commander and statesman Joseph Reed, whose zealous pursuit of Arnold may have precipitated his treachery.
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By 1795 Britain's dissolute Prince Regent (pictured) had, through his passions for horses, mistresses and diamond-buttoned breeches, acquired debts of £630,000 (roughly £74m or $94m today); the unwelcome attentions of Parliament; and an even less welcome engagement to a wealthy cousin.
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Local police chief Jim Hopper (David Harbour) was the hero-as-human wreckage, drunk and dissolute and wounded, the kind of lawman-with-a-cruddy-house who popped up a lot before traumatized First Blood morphed into steroidal First Blood Part 2.
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David's no fool, and there are indications from early on that he's not nearly as out-of-control as he likes to pretend — that acting dissolute is a shield for him in the same way that acting aloof is one for Lorraine.
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Not only did it bat away the treacly, preachy conventional wisdom about how "every child needs a father" by putting it in the mouth of the dissolute, pathetic Dill, it belied it with an episode showing how women show up for each other.
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This man served as the model for the character of Wunsch, in "The Song of the Lark"—a dissolute but impassioned immigrant musician who is among the first to glimpse the talent of Thea Kronborg, destined to become a leading Wagner singer.
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A dissolute post-breakup mourning period ended when Ms. Jett met Kenny Laguna, a songwriter and producer whose bubble-gum roots found an affinity with Ms. Jett's sexy, riff-driven brand of hard rock and helped form her lasting band, the Blackhearts.
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Some of them will privately admit that he is deeply corrupt, but the justification for their support of him goes something like this: Mr. Trump may be unethical, unscrupulous and morally dissolute, but he is by far the lesser of two evils.
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A flow of articles in Communist Party publications in recent weeks has argued that the United States' tumultuous past year showed it to be dysfunctional and dissolute, and blighted by corruption, social and political polarization, reckless debt and an enfeebled news media.
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Robert Stone's bracing, evocative novel "Children of Light" follows an affair between Gordon Walker, a dissolute actor and screenwriter, and the troubled movie star Lu Anne Bourgeois ("Once he had told her that she had two speeds: Bad Lu Anne and Saint Lu Anne").
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For those who worried that maybe, after reinventing Dior Homme in his own Thin Dark Duke image, and Saint Laurent in the shape of dissolute morning-after Los Angeles teenagers, perhaps Mr. Slimane did not have another brand vision in him — you were right, too.
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"To be recognized as the lead actress and a musician at the same time, I can't tell you what that means to me," said Gaga, who co-wrote the film's smash duet "Shallow," which her character, Ally, sings onstage with Cooper's dissolute rocker, Jackson Maine.
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For this centennial tribute, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, led for the occasion by its pianist, Dan Nimmer, welcomes a guest: Johnny O'Neal, a veteran singer and pianist with keen insight into the fine, dissolute pathos of songs like "Lush Life," a signature Strayhorn ballad.
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On Sunday, Sudan TV claimed the strike was a failure and sought to portray the protesters as dissolute and immoral, broadcasting footage of Sudanese women in Western-style clothing, and an interview with a man who said he had wanted to attend the protests to consume alcohol and hashish.
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The more sympathetic members of the McAllan clan — Laura, a bookish, musical, cultivated woman dragged into the mud by the blunt force of her husband's will, and Jamie, a dissolute, poetic soul of the kind Tennessee Williams would have recognized — are in some ways more dangerous to the Jacksons.
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Bobby Tallis possessed the drainpipe physique, knee-length mackintosh, and winsomely dissolute demeanor of a poet, or so he believed, as he pursued a lavishly wayward course across the mangy municipal parks, median strips, and depressed residential quadrangles of his quarter of the city on another blustery October afternoon.
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The picture refers to the turmoil surrounding the 1973 Baathist coup and the First Kurdish Iraqi War, but it also serves as a reminder that Bernstein's time at Yale overlapped the dissolute undergraduate career of George W. Bush, who was completing his junior year when she received her MFA in 1967.
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" Set in the early eighties, it centers on three dissolute, privileged young people, and takes place in an apartment precisely described in the stage directions as being "on the 2nd or 20123rd floor of a somewhat rundown Postwar building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan between Broadway and West End.
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In that my emotions of parenting Are like the forgotten emotions of my childhood piercing, loud, constant, stirring dissolute and selfish, self- and world-dissolving For the most part, The Braid is composed of long-lined, whole-sentence tercets, although some sentences fray at the end, without a full-stop.
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Directed by Frank Lloyd, a former actor whose career began during World War I and continued into the 1950s, "Children of Divorce" is predicated on one of silent cinema's greatest attractions, namely the spectacle of beautiful, dissolute young creatures enjoying the privileged lifestyle of what would now be called the one percent.
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Jeans were the Big New Thing (or maybe the Big Old Thing) on a runway that otherwise seemed like a repeat of his last show, back in March, when he about-faced from dissolute rocker youth in tiny party dresses to bourgeois Frenchwomen (yes, the 1970s version) and set off a frenzy for culottes.
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But it's the uptight second child, Violet, who is the source of the big family scandal: Her son, born without her parents' knowledge, was given up for adoption and rediscovered 15 years later thanks to the pointed meddling of the eldest sister, Wendy, a dissolute young widow who resents Violet's inability to appreciate her own luck.
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In both places, far from the self-regarding literary soirees of New York, for which he had little but contempt, and the lucre of Hollywood, where he had done time as a dazzlingly dissolute if not altogether successful screenwriter, he could engage in the essential, monosyllabic pursuits that defined the borders of his life: to walk, drive, hunt, fish, cook, drink, smoke, write.
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There are at least two layers of backstories, one involving a brutalized woman who willfully plunges in her car to an icy death in front of her young teenage son, and one set nine years earlier in the town of Bergen, where another alcoholic detective (Val Kilmer, in a truly strange performance) is working on another case, dissolute and distressed.
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Yet it becomes increasingly feasible that the roles can be reversed, and that Schwab might be the Cain to Subicz's Abel: Schwab "kills" Subicz by becoming too dissolute to edit him, or by having earlier championed Nagel, a famous but plodding German writer whose success has stymied Subicz (Nagel is a composite, but also the Nobel Laureate and Waffen SS member, Günter Wilhelm Grass).
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It was thus that I observed my car drive away, two little red tail-lights, and this threw me into a strange reflective state, in which my dissolute night at the Wrangler and my ensuing exhaustion, the cowboy and the boy, the two crooks who had just stolen my car, my remote house and its unconquered air of vacancy, all seemed to have equal value—that is, no value.
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When the trailer for Mr. Cooper's take came out, with its feature-length sincerity reduced to an easily parodied montage, those two-and-a-half minutes inspired countless memes: I was particularly knocked out by how the film's "Just wanted to take another look at you" moment, shared between Bradley Cooper's dissolute rocker Jackson Maine and Lady Gaga's on-the-rise Ally, was turned by two New Yorkers into a hilarious couples' costume.
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As they drove out of the Cortober side of town, a parade of drunken women skittered toward the bridge in glittery cowboy hats and stretch-nylon skirts, with bottles of Skinny Prosecco to hand and in their eyes the dissolute, the haunted look of a three-day hen at its fag end and emblazoned on their tight-fitting T-shirts the legend " MOHILL PUSSY POSSE, " and with something already close to love he turned to see the tip of Katherine's nose rise to match his own disdain.
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