libertinism
Example Sentences
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The lure of liberty – and libertinism – is strong, whatever age one may be.
From Seattle Times
But the tensions in “The Rules of the Game” — between the rich and the poor, between propriety and libertinism, between order and pandemonium — are so refined as to be almost sui generis.
From New York Times
Our current cycle began with the baby boomers, followed by the relatively tiny Generation X. Then came millennials, who Strauss and Howe figured would reject their boomer forebears’ individualism and libertinism, becoming the “next Greatest Generation.”
From New York Times
We can debate just how golden their achievements really were, but in hindsight his description applies to the period of the boomer takeover — it was the tension between a multitudinous younger generation’s utopianism and libertinism and mysticism and an older generation’s attachment to patriotism and family and religion that shaped and stamped the rise of rock ‘n’ roll, the rebel cinema of the 1970s, the New Age reinvention of religion, the New Journalism and the postmodern wave in the academy and the libertarian ascendancy in the GOP and more.
From Seattle Times
By the early 18th century, moral instability encouraged both libertinism and chiliasm.
From Washington Post
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