hedonism
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"Maybe the hedonism of the time is a little bit different, where I feel like we're all quite censored a bit more nowadays in what we say and what we do."
From BBC • Feb. 16, 2026
I want my students and children’s friends to be healthy, but I also understand the gesture, the fashionable nihilism, the hedonism, the why not.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026
The combination of adolescence’s slippery hedonism and the French Riviera’s languid air spurred the explosive popularity of Françoise Sagan’s 1954 novel “Bonjour Tristesse,” written when the author was herself a teenager.
From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2025
After a breezy “Rock Your Body” and embracing 2000s club hedonism on “SexyBack,” a harnessed-up Timberlake returned for his “Mirrors” encore atop the LED vessel that carried him above the crowd.
From Seattle Times • May 3, 2024
Its swaths of deep brush and arable land made it great for farming but less appealing for honeymoons and hedonism.
From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore
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