hedonist

Example Sentences

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Sold in a shiny glass bottle and advertised on TV, immortality has been commodified in the hedonist dystopia of “Divinity,” the startling new film from writer-director Eddie Alcazar.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2023

He won't stop being who he always was, meaning an actor who takes on crowd-pleasing projects and a guy who calls himself an "anarchist, Marxist, ethical hedonist, nondiscriminatory empath, epistemological deconstructionist Texan."

From Salon • Mar. 1, 2023

For a hedonist, pleasure is good and pain is bad, and for this reason they can serve as principles for determining well-being.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

Mr Bennett defended himself in a Facebook post on Sunday, declaring that such spending had "dramatically decreased" during his premiership and that "attempts to present me as a hedonist are simply funny".

From BBC • Apr. 27, 2022

Felix knew being called a hedonist wasn't a compliment.

From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty