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

While I’d want copies of the Bible, Plato, Dante, Shakespeare and Proust — the biggies of western literature — I’m too much of a sybarite to restrict myself to classics.

From Washington Post • Jan. 11, 2022

But just as Augusta sees the inner sybarite within the dull Henry, Mr. Havergal saw that a timeless, theater-celebrating play might be extracted from Greene’s dated novel.

From New York Times • Oct. 15, 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

Up another flight of softly carpeted stairs, across a wide hall, and lo! the abode of the sybarite, the apartments of the disciple of Chance.

From Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter by Lynch, Lawrence L.