Sentences with phrase «sybarites in»

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'» Eleanor, also called Nell, is a fearful spinster who has sacrificed her own happiness to care for a hateful, invalid mother, now dead; Theodora, who calls herself Theo, is a brazen, provocative sybarite, attracted to women as well as men; Luke is a flip and boorish manipulator who (in Jackson's book) also stands to inherit Hill House someday.

Kubrick's superb film of Vladimir Nabokov's classic comic - erotic novel — about the dangerous affair of college professor Humbert Humbert (James Mason) and nymphet Lolita (Sue Lyon), in which they are nightmarishly pursued by the writer, sybarite and man of many faces Clare Quilty (Peter Sellers).

It's pretty hard to find fault with a car whose 500 - plus horsepower and almost 600 lb - ft of torque is wrapped in a package that speaks to your inner sybarite — so I'm not going to do that.

Automotive sybarites might bristle at the thought of a solo cross-country drive in a tight two - seater, whether with the top up or down.

With options like the aforementioned 21 - inch 911 Turbo Design wheels wrapped in Continental summer rubber ($ 3,300) and a Porsche Torque Vectoring Plus electronically locking differential ($ 1,500), this test vehicle has clearly been spec'd for driving enthusiasts, not sybarites.

Long before supermodels and other sexed - up sybarites of the»90s binged and purged in its splashy boutique hotels, Miami Beach was a destination for pale, well - to - do New Yorkers seeking a respite from the concrete jungle.

As «SAM FRANCIS: Paintings 1947 — 1990» goes on view at LA MoCA's Geffen Contemporary, PETER PLAGENS asks how Abstract Expressionism's sunny sybarite will hold up in the long view.