Sentences with phrase «hedonistic lifestyles»

Brad Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, says young men and women in their 20 ′ s today suffer from the effects of modern hedonistic lifestyles that have shattered traditional family values and replaced them with a relationship wasteland instead.

The ending of the film, which seems to be overreaching in trying to make this tale of lost youth into something deeper, is awkwardly handled and overwrought, a possible metaphor for the dangers of hedonistic lifestyles.

Would you rather live as a Christian, thinking that no matter what you do, Christ will forgive you and let you into heaven and therefor live as hedonistic a lifestyle as you like, looking down at the unsaved pagans with disdain all along.

In high school and college I developed a rebellious nature coupled with a hedonistic lifestyle.

In Israel there is a growing drug and alcohol problem, and many young people have embraced a hedonistic lifestyle.

«I fell in love with the hedonistic lifestyle» of fine food and wine during that dinner, he exclaims.

Mimi Rogers was very good as Sharon, a woman who finds God when her empty, hedonistic lifestyle bottoms out.

Resenting Mozart for both his hedonistic lifestyle and his undeniable talent, the highly religious Salieri is gradually consumed by his jealousy and becomes obsessed with Mozart's downfall, leading to a devious scheme that has dire consequences for both men.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS American Swing (Unrated) Wife - swapping documentary revisits the rise and fall of Plato's Retreat, the New York City sex club which opened in 1977 and catered to its orgy - loving clientele until the specter of AIDS began to take the luster off the hedonistic lifestyle by the early Eighties.

Behind the hedonistic lifestyle is a primal urge that feeds off of the figuratively ritualistic murder of angels (innocence) in an attempt to appease the demon.

Urbani soon makes good on his promise, with the violinist enjoying sweeping success throughout Europe even while indulging in his hedonistic lifestyle of excessive womanizing and drinking.

In this shamelessly corny directing debut by screenwriter Dan Fogelman («Last Vegas»), Pacino's Danny Collins rethinks his hedonistic lifestyle after his long - suffering manager (Christopher Plummer) presents him with a just - found l971 letter from John Lennon urging young Danny to be true to himself and his music.

Legendary director Terrence Malick («Badlands», «Days of Heaven») began his career as a philosophy professor and his latest film is an existential examination of the hedonistic lifestyle of a frustrated screenwriter living in the Hollywood Hills.

Knight of Cups — ** 1/2 OUT OF 4 Legendary director Terrence Malick («Badlands», «Days of Heaven») began his career as a philosophy professor and his latest film is an existential examination of the hedonistic lifestyle of a frustrated screenwriter living... Continue reading →

There is the clash between devout middle American values — no sex before marriage, the importance of church — with the hedonistic lifestyle of L.A. — where sex is a key part of what drives the film industry.

While watching Belfort and his team's hedonistic lifestyle is certainly entertaining, when it dominates over 2 / 3s of the films narrative, it does start to risk becoming tiresome and overindulgent.

From the tropical islands, post card beaches, crazy nightlife and endless smiles you'll find in Thailand to the raw and natural beauty, mouth watering food and endless adventure of Vietnam or the hedonistic lifestyle, insanely awesome accommodation and amazing wildlife (think spotting wild dolphins, snorkelling with turtles and hand feeding wild monkeys) of Bali, Indonesia you've got so much to choose from and discover!

Presented in this exhibition are works from Ryan McGinley's early days as a photographer, which captured the enthusiasm of the boldly dynamic, free - willed, and hedonistic lifestyle of such contemporaries.

They could lead quite the hedonistic lifestyle.

Evidence of a wild or hedonistic lifestyle may be used to suggest that a parent is not fit to be the resident parent.

Not exact matches

His debauched lifestyle and outrageous behavior at his friend's bachelor party gets a hedonistic young man uninvited to the wedding, a situation he tries to remedy by reforming his pleasure - driven, egocentric ways in this bawdy comedy starring Jesse Bradford, Matt Czuchry and Geoff Stults.

If you're looking to fuse the more hedonistic holiday lifestyle with that of the stripped back and relaxed aspect, then Ibiza Town really does proffer both sides of the local currency.

Hockney's iconic, A Bigger Splash, 1967, is seen by the curators as a key image representing the hedonistic LA lifestyle.