sybarite
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It’s difficult to imagine a worse addition to this oil-and-water mix of high-minded nonconformist cranks and hard-toiling middle-class settlers than a capitalist sybarite.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 23, 2025
The composer compared his relationship with David to an unlikely marriage — with Mr. Bacharach the cosmopolitan sybarite to his partner’s committed family man.
From Washington Post • Feb. 9, 2023
The painting is singular in Johns’s oeuvre, in part because its title hints at a narrative, one about a sybarite who likes to drink and party.
From New York Times • Sep. 13, 2021
At once confessional and curatorial, the book portrays Oswalt as not just a celluloid sybarite, but someone dead serious about the art.
From Slate • Jan. 5, 2015
"When from the City's gloom shall flash to light This truth: The sleek and selfish sybarite Is meanest of God's creatures?"
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, March 1, 1890 by Various
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