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
All too often Ive comes off less as a visionary than a sybarite.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 3, 2022
But he himself was no sybarite; he was earnest about his invention’s benefits: how weightlessness contributed to health and well-being.
From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2018
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
Mr. Stanhope and his pupils lingered behind, walking on very slowly till the men were out of hearing with their burden, and William then exclaimed: 'Go, you genuine sybarite!
From Forgotten Tales of Long Ago by F. D. Bedford
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