Pleasure principle

Usage examples of hedonism.

It goes without saying, of course, that the asceticism of the one and the hedonism of the other are at many points interchangeable.

I call them a sublime super-development of hedonism upon a thoroughly unsalubrious soil.

At times, Ranunculus wondered if it might not be better to stroll through life as one of his mortal charges, oblivious to all but his own hedonism while entwined in a web of self-importance.

She was at breakpoint with her most recent beau, bored with his rugby, his healthy hedonism, the smooth self-assured way he embraced her in bed.

I simply do not subscribe to the hypocrisy of sitting in a church surrounded by an overprivileged Society that sings alleluias on Sunday and practices hedonism the rest of the week.

While they may have been forced by their own common sense to abandon their initial simpleminded hedonism, they are not out of the woods.

This is particularly frustrating because your sole duty is to serve thousands of ugly urbanites hell-bent on holiday hedonism.

Other dittos, meant for hedonism, sacrifice some élan vital for hyperactive pleasure cells and high-fi memory inloading.

It was as though the rebels had managed to kill the spirit of hedonism and turn the Wospan into a drearier, more furtive place.

Ethical Hedonism recognised that one had to enjoy oneself where one got the chance these days, but that rather than immerse oneself totally in such diversions, one ought always to behave in a reasonable and reasonably responsible manner, never losing sight of the more general moral issues and their manifestations in society.

Hedonism was the commonest of philosophies in the civilized galaxy, but it was piquant to hear a playwoman trotting out its mouldy cliches with such fierce solemnity.