They and their sybaritic buddies are smug in their social insularity.
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Those sybaritic thrills were a balm on a deep, historic wound.
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It's all about the accumulation of wealth and a sybaritic lifestyle.
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The movement, "Spirited," maintains a sybaritic optimism even through emotional U-turns.
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They should try not to be wild or sybaritic—or too indiscreet.
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But it's also another way for us sybaritic Americans to forget we're part of a community.
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The best have retreated to rebuild; the worst have abased themselves before a sybaritic, irreligious presidential nominee.
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Rich tempered passion's eruptions with reason, rhetoric, severity and a dislike for everything slack, sybaritic and exclusionary.
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Indulgent, sybaritic, tourist-crowded Lanzarote is nothing like Fran's damp and dour England, with its mundane social conscience.
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A caustic ambassadorial cable describing the sybaritic lifestyle of the Tunisian presidential family may have sparked the Arab Spring.
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Masks deliver this rare combination of sybaritic appeal and instant payoff — while requiring almost zero effort on our parts.
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Buren's current sybaritic in situ art, with its stated goal of exposing institutionalization, is a central candidate for such exposure.
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He defended hosting a sybaritic party at French palace Versailles because it was "the symbol of the globalisation of France".
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Later on, it feels very natural, in that sybaritic 1973 way, for the three of them to end up in bed together.
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In the attorney's life, you can see the strange ease with which a sybaritic con man fit in with crusading social reactionaries.
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Sybaritic—a word meaning outrageously luxurious—derives from the ancient Greek city of Sybaris, known for its inhabitants' excessively piscine and indulgent feasts.
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In a 2013 episode of his TV series "Parts Unknown," Bourdain spent a sybaritic few days with McMillan and Morin in and around Montreal.
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In more affluent households, vessels made of copper and stone can serve as the weighty centerpiece of a bathroom masquerading as a sybaritic temple.
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Three guest bedrooms are each connected to a marble bathroom, while the master suite is a sybaritic hub with a dressing room and a balcony.
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While many have focused on the pajama-clad avatar of sybaritic male pleasure, others have paid tribute to a less familiar figure: Hef the progressive.
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Furtive gropes ensued, with a teenage elevator operator, a cousin and — after the family follows Mickey's career to sybaritic Los Angeles — the cantor at a local synagogue.
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The more sybaritic sensibility reaches a blurry pinnacle in "You're the Worst," in which the heavy-drinking denizens of Olivia's castle compete to out-insult one another.
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As the magazine took off in the '50s, Hefner shed a marriage to his former classmate Mildred Williams and embraced the sybaritic life depicted on those glossy pages.
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And when he's captured and held by the government, he becomes even more dissociated from his intentions, falling into a sybaritic haze of alcohol, sex, and self-absorption.
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Mr Finn's own writing shines in his description of pre-war American high society: the sybaritic circuit of parties, night clubs and restaurants that meant everyone knew everyone.
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Khaite, designed by Catherine Holstein, late of Gap, is an advanced contemporary collection that looks kind of like a Scandinavian version of Tory Burch, with a quietly sybaritic windswept mood.
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Probably he was too solitary a soul—and too confirmed a heterosexual—to relish the jostling, sybaritic pleasures on offer in the City of Dreaming Spires in the interwar years.
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A convenient alternative to Newport, this was where Jazz Age Hearsts, Harrimans and Guggenheims sealed themselves off from urban heat and dust in sybaritic summer palaces at the water's edge.
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Creamy melodies and relaxed tempos prove ideal for a wallow in electronic and vocal texture so sybaritic they bypass conventional quietstorm modes and arrive in a soundscape overwhelming in its calm.
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Dressed impeccably, a slight smile on his face, a gun in his hand, a beautiful woman by his side, and a clever bon mot reflecting his sybaritic lifestyle on his lips.
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Shot in Technicolor entirely in Algeria, with Jean-Luc Godard's favored actress, Anna Karina, as the protagonist's lover, Visconti's "The Stranger" makes the senseless sensuous — even sybaritic — in its blazing light and palpable heat.
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Eleanor Roosevelt was a zealous proponent of scientific eating and, in concert with her housekeeper, Henrietta Nesbitt, kept the sybaritic president on a dreary austerity diet of, among other things, watery soup and prune pudding.
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The results should bring succor to participants in this weekend's New York City Marathon and other strenuous events this fall who, like me, would rather ease afterward into a sybaritic hot tub than an ice bath.
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For those in search of more sybaritic pleasures, there is a robust wine region as well: the Santa Lucia Highlands, part of the mountain range shielding the Valley from the Pacific Ocean, and flourishing with pinot noir and chardonnay grapes.
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It is Cinta who suggests that our inability to combat climate change is a type of demonic possession: We are unable to turn away from our phones, our cars, our comfy sybaritic lives, even though we know the consequences of our behavior.
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" We can't work for change in these punishing times without pleasure, Mr. Chan maintains, and he sees water — cleansing, healing, sybaritic — as its universal source, often joined in art with the motif of the bather, in which "the spiritual, the material and the sensuous coincide.
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If one became a young adult during the sybaritic, communitarian summer of 1967, when the last years of the slick "Mad Men" era and lingering staid '50s morals were turned on their heads, it's hard to describe the euphoria of the time without sounding silly.
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The set recreated his mansion on North State Parkway, rich in sybaritic amusements, where he greeted entertainers like Tony Bennett, Ella Fitzgerald and Nat King Cole, and intellectuals and writers like Max Lerner, Norman Mailer and Alex Haley, while bunches of glamorous young women milled around.
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Mugdi never asks himself, and it feels a pusillanimous and indulgent exercise, as if the best this exiled man can now do is write about foreign people in a foreign country because his own no longer exists; it has been wiped from the map and from his bereft and sybaritic soul.
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By making another trip to China in January 2001, visiting Putin in Moscow that August, and receiving Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi in Pyongyang in 2002, Kim Jong Il transformed his image from a reclusive, possibly-unhinged, sybaritic tyrant to a legitimate global statesman with whom the United States could conduct nuclear business.
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If there's anything we've learned, surely, from the Weinstein nightmare — and from prep schools and Penn State and NBC and Donald Trump's payoffs and a million other examples — it's that cultures that enable sexual abuse and predation can be a problem no matter whether the environment is liberal or conservative, religious or secular, ascetic or sybaritic.
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Characters like the cunning S.S. officer he played in Quentin Tarantino's film "Inglourious Basterds," for which he won the first of two Oscars, and the sybaritic profiteer in the coming "Downsizing" draw much of their sly charisma from Mr. Waltz's artful flow and pacing, and his command of vocal shades from soft purr to sharp steel.
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The club, at 45 Park Lane, near Hyde Park, became a powerful generator of cash for the company, and Mr. Lownes was its sybaritic frontman, dating the bunnies (they weren't allowed to consort with the guests, but the proprietor was, by official decree, a different matter) and hosting wild parties that made swinging London swing a little harder.
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" Put the two men's records, their reputations, even their respective books, side by side, and it's hard to imagine two more polar opposites than Trump and Comey: They are as antipodean as the untethered, sybaritic Al Capone and the square, diligent G-man Eliot Ness in Brian De Palma's 1987 movie "The Untouchables"; or the vengeful outlaw Frank Miller and Gary Cooper's stoic, duty-driven marshal Will Kane in Fred Zinnemann's 1952 classic "High Noon.
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In her work, photographer and performance artist Jaimie Warren has taken self-portraits in which she has transformed herself into, among other things, a sybaritic version of the Hindu goddess Kali who smokes joints from each of her eight hands; a heaping plate of lasagna that is also the head of Lana Del Rey; and a ravenous Freddy Krueger and the screaming meatball he impales, plucks from a pizza, and gobbles up.
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Described as resembling J. Wellington Wimpy, Houbert is both an executive and an architect, but expends much energy on sybaritic living and ostentatious display. Having run New World One, when that installation was dismantled he moved to a chateau on the Loire in France, and subsequently drove the development of Monte Carlo.
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Marketing materials stated, "The ice cream that appeals to the sybaritic buyer with a taste for the very finest." Television commercials typically featured the catch phrase, "I ate all the Frusen Glädjé." Another catchphrase used was "Enjoy the Guilt", which appeared in print advertising and also on small crystal ice cream bowls, which were available via mail order from the company.
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Xifeng's relationship with her sybaritic husband changed greatly as the story processed. At first, Jia Lian was infatuated with his new bride, weeping hysterically when she got ill with a voodoo curse. But he is a womanizer by nature, and grew tired of Xifeng's stringent control. In one chapter, he slept with a servant woman during his daughter's illness; in another, he was caught in bed with the wife of his servant on Xifeng's birthday.
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In 1949 he returned to Italy to research the Italian Neolithic for his Ph.D. thesis. While there he decided to satisfy a boyhood dream of finding the “Lost City of Sybaris”, which he had read about as a child in James Baldwin's Wonder-Book of Horses in which the Sybaritic military had trained its horses to dance and consequently lost the colony to their attacking neighbors. Sybaris was one of the earliest Greek colonies (founded ca. 720 B.C.).
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Once in power, Nero allowed Claudius' cult to lapse, built his Domus Aurea over the unfinished temple, indulged his sybaritic and artistic inclinations and allowed the cult of his own genius as paterfamilias of the Roman people.Claudius' Caelian temple was later rebuilt and some of it survives through incorporation in later building. Nero's cult may have been justified as a "revival" of Claudius' entitlement to genius cult as pater patriae. Senatorial attitudes to him appear to have been largely negative.
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The Middle Ages were as rich and colourful in Lincolnshire as anywhere else. But there were conflicts, such as accusations against the Jews and the Lincolnshire rebellion, in which lower classes struggled with constraints, show that life was not all a sybaritic idyll. An important medieval book, the Luttrell Psalter, was the source for nearly every schoolbook illustrations of the period. It lay unregarded in the church at Irnham until the early 20th century, when it was discovered and preserved for the nation.
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The wild, eccentric Rimbaud displays no sense of manners or decency whatsoever, scandalising Verlaine's pretentious, bourgeois in-laws. The 27-year-old Verlaine is seduced by the 16-year-old Rimbaud's physical body as well as by the unique originality of his mind. The staid respectability of married, heterosexual life and easy, middle class surroundings had been stifling Verlaine's admittedly sybaritic literary talent. His taking up with Rimbaud is as much a rebellion and a liberation as it is a giving in to self- indulgence and masochism.
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Sally Moore of Snow Country wrote, "Far from today's sybaritic accommodations, back then the rustic cabins required new brides to make the beds and tidy up while grooms helped with the dishes and did the heavy work." By 1960, the Pocono Mountains rivaled Niagara Falls as a honeymoon destination, attracting 100,000 couples a year. Morris Wilkins, co-owner of Cove Haven, invented the heart-shaped bathtub in 1963 as a way to lure honeymoon customers.Squeri (2002), p. 217 The tub would appear in other couples resorts and became a symbol of the Pocono resort business.
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Lewis is a French nobleman who lives on his country estates, where he raises his only child, Angellina. He takes care to guide the girl away from the sybaritic sloth in which many aristocratic women indulge, encouraging her to "rise with the sun, walk, dance, or hunt, and learn the virtues of plants and simples" (Act I, scene 1). Yet now that she is fourteen years old, he judges it appropriate that she be married to a fitting husband. Lewis looks toward his neighbor Brisac, who has two eligible sons.
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Gokturk khaganates at their height, c. 600 AD: The next objective of the Turkic-Byzantine offensive was the Kingdom of Iberia, whose ruler Stephanus was a tributary to Khosrow II. In the words of Movses Kagankatvatsi, the Khazars "encircled and besieged the famous and great sybaritic trade city of Tbilisi,"Movses 107 whereupon they were joined by Emperor Heraclius with his mighty army. Heraclius and Tong Yabghu (called Ziebel in the Byzantine sources) met under the walls of Narikala. The yabgu rode up to the emperor, kissed his shoulder and made a bow.
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" The Times reported: "Notice the Peruvian mahogany carefully, and you will see that the heart of the log has been chosen and that its grain has been placed so that it gives the appearance of real flames. Certainly the esthetic for the reception room of the engine-house de luxe." The chief's apartment alone was reported to have cost $25,000. The Times noted that the quarters rivaled the finest suites in the country, referred to it as a "Sybaritic effort," and offered its sarcastic speculation that the house captain would be expected to "wear evening dress after 6 o'clock, at least.
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He died at Carabanchel Bajo in 1883, 6 million reales in debt. In the course of a life of luxury and sybaritic extremes,Otero Carvajal, op. cit. , writes "Su vida galante era tan intensa que podía competir en sibaritismo y sensualidad con la de los monarcas orientales": "His love life was so intense as to compete in sybaritism and sensuality with those of oriental monarchs." José de Salamanca had been a lawyer, conspirator, mayor, judge, banker, underwriter of public works, theatrical impresario, director of businesses, engineer, agriculturalist, livestock rancher, government minister, senator, deputy, marquess, count, and Grandee of Spain.
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Moore, who was gay, preferred bold, colorful design elements, including striking color combinations, supergraphics, stylistic eclecticism, and the use of non- traditional materials such as plastic, (aluminized) PET film, platinum tiles, and neon signs. His work often provokes arousal, challenges norms, and can lean toward kitsch. His mid-1960s New Haven residence, published in Playboy, featured an open, freestanding shower in the middle of the room, its water nozzled through a giant sunflower. His house in Orinda, California was also sybaritic, featuring an aedicula over the bed, a tree growing inside through the roof, and much natural light.
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Returned in time to the point where he first appeared in the novel, emerging from the sybaritic bath-house run by the Union, Arnie Kott finds himself repeating the actions which led him to meeting Bohlen while simultaneously dealing with perceptual distortions which seem to be emanating from Manfred's mind. He is unable to get to the FDR mountains to plant his stake, being compelled by law to go to the aid of the Bleekmen just as he did before. He encounters Bohlen, as he did originally, but in attempting to shoot him he is "killed" by a Bleekman's arrow. Waking from the vision, Kott realizes he has failed.
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Eastern Approaches (1949) is a memoir of the early career of Fitzroy Maclean. It is divided into three parts: his life as a junior diplomat in Moscow and his travels in the Soviet Union, especially the forbidden zones of Central Asia; his exploits in the British Army and SAS in the North Africa theatre of war; and his time with Josip Broz Tito and the Partisans in Yugoslavia. Maclean was considered to be one of the inspirations for James Bond,Obituary, The New York Times. and this book contains many of the elements: remote travel, the sybaritic delights of diplomatic life, violence and adventure.
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Neither the eye-popping interiors nor the extravagant gardens at Port Lympne Mansion could be described as in any way "reserved", or even "English". In fact, one reviewer of a 2016 bio about Sassoon describedit as a "sybaritic mansion". Mark Girouard has written of the "quiet good taste expected of a country gentleman" against which Philip may have chafed in his younger years, apparently torn between the standards of Country Life and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. His Ballets Russes-inspired dining room at Port Lympne with its lapis walls, opalescent ceiling, gilt-winged chairs with jade-green cushions, all surmounted by a frieze of scantily-clad Africans, suggests the outsider confidence of a Rothschild and of an openly gay man.
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A 2019 article in Tax Journal stated that the Beatles' legacy endures in the "world of tax" through the song, which had become the "karaoke favourite" of Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs, and through "the 'Beatles clause' – a targeted anti-avoidance rule aimed at preventing entertainers from converting highly taxed income to lower-tax capital receipts". While debating the merits of reintroducing supertax in the UK, the writers warned against a return to the level imposed by Wilson, which they said, in support of Harrison's contention, "wasn't a fair progressive system. It was outright theft." Cultural commentator Christopher Bray finds "Taxman" highly amusing and describes Harrison as "one of the Sixties' greatest poets of sybaritic hedonism".
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Encyclopedist Andrew Tate writes Maggie is a surgeon with no spiritual faith and, through Seth, she "learns to trust the invisible", while Seth learns the wonders of life through her. Professor Christopher R. Miller observes Seth's book recommendation for Maggie is Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast, but Miller suggests John Milton's Paradise Lost would have been more interesting. Miller contrasted Milton's epic, in which "angels were matter and spirit" and "sybaritic show-offs", with the depiction of the supernatural beings in the film. Tate believes the fact that angels reside in libraries indicates they represent "an age of reason, order and learning", though these principles led to decline in faith, contemplating Nathaniel's line "They don't believe in us anymore".
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The major protagonists of the novel are Peter Gregory Golangco and Guia Espiritu. Golangco, a recognized art scholar abroad and a member of a hacienda-owning clan, was a student, artist, academic, and occasional “sybaritic delights” indulger who decided to return to the Philippines. Golangco was oblivious to the fact that the Golangcos who stayed in the Philippines were the source of oppression, death, and poverty in the village in his hometown. The Golangco clan has a thriving business enterprise inside and outside the Philippines. The clan also participated in Philippine politics through elections and accepting appointments to positions at the “higher echelons” of the Philippine Government. PG Golangco had a “long- standing affair” with the dean of the university where he is teaching.
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Literary critic Dan Schneider wrote of Heinlein's Stranger In A Strange Land that Harshaw was "a sybaritic fop and guru dilettante" and that Jubal "could also be seen as the stranger of the title" for being "a devout and fierce individualist in a world filled with cults and bureaucracies." Jubal's belief in his own free will, was one "which Mike, Jill, and the Fosterites misinterpret as a pandeistic urge, 'Thou art God!Dan Schneider, Review of Stranger In A Strange Land (The Uncut Version), by Robert A. Heinlein (7/29/05). A 2011 Medium review evaluates Harshaw negatively, labeling him "Heinlein’s crude wish-fulfillment stand-in for himself" and "a pedant" for whom: "There’s nothing another character can say to him that won’t produce a lecture in reply, and even the faintly interesting ones tend to slide back into tired sexist stereotypes by the time he’s done.
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" Rothkopf praises Joon-ho, stating, "... Bong grabs onto the grungy conventions of postapocalyptic adventure with relish. He serves up claustrophobic action scenes (one largely shot in the dark) and ominous, messianic overtones as the band of rebels makes its way forward." Lou Lumenick of The New York Post gave the film high acclaim, writing, "Don't miss it—this is enormously fun visionary filmmaking, with a witty script and a great international cast." He added, "The beautifully designed train is one of the most memorable in screen history ..." David Denby of The New Yorker spoke highly of the piece, stating it to be, "Violent, often absurd, but full of brilliant surprises, while Bong keeps the center of the action moving toward the front of the train, a considerable feat of camera placement, choreographed mayhem, and cohesive editing," and praising Nekvasil's production design, "Bong and [Nekvasil], provide them with a series of sybaritic astonishments.
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Set in the "sybaritic if somewhat torpid atmosphere of the Ottoman Empire", The Palace of Dreams is, according to his own statement, a realization of Kadare's long-term dream to construct a personalized vision of hell, devised as a modern counterpart to Dante's Inferno, and usually likened by literary critics to Kafka's, Orwell's, Zamyatin's and Borges' similar literary inventions. Mark- Alem is a twenty-something (by the end of the novel, twenty-eight) Ottoman Albanian, a descendant of the (real) influential Köprülü family during the period of its greatest dominance. At the idea of his uncle, the Vizier, who holds the position of Foreign Minister, Mark-Alem is offered a job at the mysterious and feared Tabir Sarai, a government office responsible for the study of dreams. Even though inexperienced, on the back of a "recommendation that hangs between menace and patronage ('You suit us...')", he is hired in the "Selection" section of the Palace, where his obligations include making a longlist of interesting dreams and draft-interpretations of the more striking ones.
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