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
But his admirers should know he remained a sybarite even in his waning days.
From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2015
Vidal presented himself to the world as a witty sybarite, fearless social critic and hardworking professional writer, and that’s how he wished to be remembered, not as a falling-down drunk and sentimental depressive.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 14, 2015
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
They would avail themselves of it with that sybarite deliberateness which had characterized their epicurean guile and deceit from the beginning.
From The Tyranny of Weakness by Paul Stahr
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