dissipation
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It is a better movie than it was a play, for the sequences showing the dissipations of very young and very rich characters do not suffer the stage's three-walled circumscription.
From Time Magazine Archive
Baudelaire's parents tried to check his dissipations and steer him into a commercial career, but succeeded only in drawing him from respectability into the Latin Quarter.
From Time Magazine Archive
Accustomed to the dissipations of years of destruction, temperate men have become gluttonous, calm men avid, honest men robbers and even the best of men dishonest.
From Time Magazine Archive
It may be too much to hope that Hollywood should capture the Dostoevskian mood of borderline psychosis�the hysterical religiosity, the manic dissipations, the powerful undertow of hypocrisy and crime.
From Time Magazine Archive
Her mind seemed wholly taken up with reminiscences of past gaiety, and aspirations after dissipations to come.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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