What is "hedonistic"

Usage examples of "hedonistic".

However they may be as economic theories, Fascism and Nazism are psychologically far sounder than any hedonistic conception of life.

But because of his own streak of savagery London could grasp something that Wells apparently could not, and that is that hedonistic societies do not endure.

Here the hedonistic principle is pushed to its utmost, the whole world has turned into a Riviera hotel.

English morale and spread a hedonistic, what-do-I-get-out-of-it attitude to life, has done nothing but harm.

For his sake a great nation has been willing to overwork itself for six years and then to fight for two years more, whereas for the common-sense, essentially hedonistic world-view which Mr Wells puts forward, hardly a human creature is willing to shed a pint of blood.

The virtue had gone out of the classes he idealized, the young were hedonistic or disaffected, the desire to paint the map red had evaporated.

Freud would call the id, and the one others might refer to as the hedonistic faction, was a stronger bunch: wild, hearty, and unaware of their own strength, or perhaps heedless of it.

All through high school Marisa had talked about going to Paris, having wild hedonistic affairs with crazed painters, and becoming a famous artist.

The land below the Tropic of Cancer provided them with a hedonistic environment that dazzled the eye and excited the imagination.

But he could lose himself in the hedonistic backwash of the Keeps, the froth that always overlies any social unit.

She had lolled in a sensual, hedonistic atmosphere for so long, her very nature seemed changed.

As hedonistic as it might be, she was overjoyed, moving her head rhythmically as tendrils of her flowing hair scooted across her shoulder, teased her breasts then curled and tickled her stomach.

She had become enslaved by her own lust for the man, had lavished in every wicked, hedonistic pleasure, forgotten all her prayers and the condition of her immortal soul.

She kept her word, even when she gave it to hedonistic infidel criminals like ourselves.

She had nothing but contempt for such hedonistic, power-mad egomaniacs as this, and no more compunction about dealing with them than she would when dealing with a poisonous snake.