Sentences with phrase «into hedonism»

To live without at least an open - ended sense of future (even if it's not an optimistic one) is to open one's self to a morass of conflicting impulses — from the anticipated thrill of a reckless plunge into hedonism to a profoundly demoralizing sense of hopelessness and a feeling that a lifelong guiding sense of purpose has suddenly evaporated.

Throughout the video, the Doppelgänger's disembodied voice mumbles brief passages from little - known Russian author Mark Levi's mysterious 1934 Novel with Cocaine, which chronicles an adolescent male's descent into hedonism and drug addiction during Russia's tumultuous years 1916 through 1919.

Diane throws herself into hedonism, marrying a sinister cult leader who's forged a new religion out of the fears of the masses.

Locking the outside world out and sulking in your room proves to be just as harmful as diving headfirst into hedonism.

Not exact matches

The book I'm working on now — which is part two — goes even further into embracing hedonism, narcissism and entitlement.

Kids is director Larry Clark's first movie, but it is not his first venture into depicting the empty hedonism of young teenagers.

This is why a new kind of illusion accompanies it, no longer a theoretical illusion but a practical one, that of a subtle hedonism, which would reintroduce an interest into morality under the pretext of happiness.

She says both groups of animals took the same amount of time to start taking heroin, suggesting THC use doesn't start them on the path to hedonism, but the THC - primed rats got more into it, suggesting it paves the way for increased use.

I found Pheobe's book and read it cover to cover about two months ago and really systematically incorporated the advice into my daily practices (within budget and without, you know, compromising hedonism).

And by conflating his mental instability with his descent into the dreary morass of his father's real estate dealings, the film seems to be awkwardly groping for a larger connection between David's inner state and the hedonism of late - Seventies Manhattan.

And sure enough, what begins as a clarion call settles into a somewhat familiar period costume drama spiced up now and again with racy sequences nonetheless sobered by the memory of the delirious hedonism of that opening, wherein we get Dracula's backstory as a hero of a holy war, repulsing Muslim invaders in Romania, turning to blasphemy when the vengeful Turks fool his wife Elisabeta (Winona Ryder) into believing that her beloved has died on the battlefield, and gleefully chewing artificial scenery with toothy relish.

Their odyssey takes them into the neon den of Californian hedonism as Amelia's activities, it becomes clear, involved participation in a blue movie called How Do You Like My Car, Big Boy?

From the crew that brought us the sleeper cult comedy, Super Troopers, Broken Lizard now taps into the slasher flick genre with Club Dread, a mix of gory thriller elements and unbridled hedonism that keeps all of its gags completely on the surface.

Sport also reminds you of your hedonism by making red the solar - eclipse glow that emerges from behind the digital speedometer and fades into the tachometer.

The fun, games and hedonism packed into this limited - production 900 come at a price, of course.

In them, bright fluorescent colors and monumental scale meet to distill»60s hedonism into abstract history paintings.

P - Funky PR: «This hedonism by the P - Funk crowd on the dance floor was then turned into an anthem of bourgeois anxieties by the New York - based band,» we're told, and «this dual meaning of pleasure and engagement serves as the defining spirit of the 10th Gwangju Biennale», which explores processes of change, destruction and transformation — with political overtones related particularly to tiger economies.

This was the period when Scully's paintings pushed forward his many early attempts to retain a vivid and exaggerated dynamic edge, when his coy and brilliant hedonism found its écriture, and when earthy bands of color became wider and more expressive as if to protrude into a deeper tonality through his pulsating, gestural applications.