Sentences with phrase «with hedonism»

They showed Adjustment (Neuroticism) negatively related to Hedonism; Ambition positively correlated with Affiliation; Sociability with both Affiliation and Recognition; Likeability (Agreeableness) with Affiliation; Prudence positively with Security and Tradition but negatively with Hedonism; Intellect (Openness) with Aesthetic and School Success with no values (r > 0.20).

The fixture, which was invented by French furniture makers in the early 18th century, was rejected by the English, who regarded French imports as tainted with the hedonism and sensuality of that country.

I think you're confusing that with hedonism.

In spite of these changes, the city's leadership was as rife with hedonism and intrigue as previous generations had been.

I don't see a problem with hedonism if you're not harming others.

Not exact matches

With Rousseau, objective natural ends are thrown out, and instead human «intentions» determine our purposes, which leads inexorably to nihilism, hedonism, and homosexuality.

Too often when we Americans speak of freedom, we sound as if freedom meant having access to the hedonism of the consumer market, or as if freedom were synonymous with license.

The problem with us Christians is that in our crass materialism and hedonism we have allowed charity (the only key to entering Heaven) to grow cold and assuage our failings in this virtue with grumpiness and outright meanness.

And with all the money you have, you could make a really good go at hedonism.

It must be admitted that when Christianity has dwelt upon the promise of heaven and the threat of hell, it has often combined a selfish hedonism with a morbid sadism.

Ordinarily it coincides with egoistic hedonism, anarchy, and «rugged» (that is, ruthless) individualism.

It was coupled with a critique of modernity, which I define as the overarching ideology of the modern period characterized by the three key terms describing larger patterns familiar to modern psychotherapy — autonomous individualism, naturalistic reductionism, and narcissistic hedonism.

The vision of the American dream with its great ideals and dedication to the good of mankind has become clouded, not only by social and political disorder and revelations of immorality, but by the prevalence of a self - centered hedonism which finds expression in a feverish quest for enjoyment.

This is the new hedonism with which the secularists want to unite British society; the new uniculturalism to replace the old multiculturalism.

Moreover, some ancient Gnostics, in what Jones rightly describes as their «obsession with salvation and purification,» followed a path that, while erroneous, is unlike — and superior to — the hedonism of many contemporary neo-Gnostic dualists.

The church conceived as it is in I Peter as «a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation» would have to be regarded as a sacerdotal throwback, a repristinization of an archaic vision that Western civilization has consumed and digested — drawing from it nourishment for altogether new purposes: Thus, as the command «fill the earth and subdue it» (Gen. 1:28) helped inspire Western civilization to create science and technology, so Jesus» celebration of love has been culturally recombined with the materialism of the Bible to produce the vital hedonism of our civilization.

Contrast this with the genuine church teaching of Pius XII: «This anti-Christian hedonism... promotes the desire to render always more intense thepleasure in the preparation and actualisation of the conjugal union, as if in matrimonial relations the whole moral law could be reduced to the regular accomplishment of the act itself, and as if all the rest, in whatever manner done, remains justified by the effusion of mutual affection, sanctified by the sacrament of marriage...» [11] In fact, it would be hard to distinguish Popcak's «One Rule for Infallible Lovers» from the kind of reduction described by the Pope.

Sex in the Caribbean usually is thought of in conjunction with the swinging adult Hedonism resort group in Jamaica, questionable establishments tucked - away on various islands or the occasional visits from ETV's «Wild On.»

«Hedonism is a blend of grain whiskies from different distilleries, with some whiskies distilled from maize and some from wheat, with some whiskies providing fruitiness and others providing wood character.

That spirit has something to do with excess, indulgence and Warp Factor hedonism.

I came in and found him lounging, the perfect picture of hedonism, eating cookies, getting comfy, and surrounding himself with his favorite toys.

Dulles's playboy brother Allen, whose hedonism was matched only by his hatred of communism, was put in charge of the Central Intelligence Agency, which rapidly ballooned from an obscure bureaucratic outpost with 350 employees to an aggressive frontline agency with thousands of operatives intent on undermining Soviet power.

By turns wry and giddy, Cormier teases out our uniquely human take on hedonism with tidbits as varied as the power of our orgasms (hint: no other creature on Earth can best us) and what the discovery of a 40,000 - year - old wooden flute reveals about music and our ancestors.

Her forthcoming memoir, The Wellness Project, chronicles her journey with Hashimoto's Thyroiditis and how she finally found the middle ground between health and hedonism by making one lifestyle change, one month at a time.

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This book is not just ideal for someone struggling with autoimmune / thyroid issues; it's also perfect for people who are struggling to maintain a balance between health and hedonism, which I believe is pretty much everyone.

I'm obsessed with the sweet spot where health and hedonism intersect, in the kitchen and beyond.

Looking for a fun friend to enjoy life with and travel with to fun places and adult playgrounds like Hedonism II in Jamaica.

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.

This is an immersive documentary, evoking the period, and arguing the case that although the unbridled hedonism did bring dangers and problems with it, there was also something of a idyllic euphoria experienced by those in this first wave of gay freedom.

Barring a few lapses, the gags fly by in rapid - fire fashion, and enough of them connect — thanks in part to the amusing mix of Hill's hang - dog demeanor with Brand's lanky, relentless hedonism.

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.

Luckily, there's plenty of allegorical beef for everyone, as Grau paints a vivid picture of Mod Madness in steady, deteriorating orbit around the entropy and hedonism of the time — sprinkling it liberally with a disdain for dictatorships Grau no doubt nursed whilst working under the heel of Francisco Franco's regime.

Meanwhile, they are content to live for the moment, in a shallow existence of compulsive sex, with an underlying message that the path of hedonism is the road to happiness.

by Walter Chaw Alan Parker likes to use his platform as a film director to preach about all manner of society's more obvious ails, reserving the bulk of his ham - fisted proselytizing for the problems he himself identifies as endemic to the United States: hedonism and drug abuse (The Wall, Midnight Express); the price of a culture of fame (The Wall, Fame); the price of Vietnam and our broken social services system (Birdy); the rampant Yankee tragedy of divorce (Shoot the Moon); racism (Mississippi Burning, Come See the Paradise); our love / hate / fear relationship with food (The Road to Wellville); and, most recently (and egregiously), the death penalty (The Life of David Gale).

Set in Gerwig's hometown — the movie opens on a black screen with a quote from fellow escapee Joan Didion, «Anybody who talks about California hedonism has never spent a Christmas in Sacramento» — «Lady Bird» hits the mark of the American teen movie while quietly reaching toward literary effect.

Lady Bird opens with a quote from a 1979 New York Times profile of Didion: «Anybody who talks about California hedonism has never spent a Christmas in Sacramento.»

Gregor Fisher stars as the postmaster who masterminds the boozy heist, with Eddie Izzard the law - abiding fuddy - duddy wanting to stop the hedonism.

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.

The great actor also talks about how crucial hedonism is to his character in «A Bigger Splash», and working with Dakota Johnson.

Brave New World Aldous Huxley's slim novel envisioning a future «utopia» with perverse qualities — as the human race succumbs to overdoses of pleasure, amusement, and hedonism.

These days, Australia's edgiest boutiques, sexiest lounges, and most intimate restaurants can actually be found 500 miles south of Sydney, in Melbourne — and if the land Down Under has anything approximating a European city, then Melbourne is it, with the charm of a small town and the hedonism of a modern metropolis.

With pure luxury and hedonism in mind the owners of Villa Uma have conceived a residence dedicated to relaxation and rejuvenation.

Located down a quiet soi (side street), our hotel in the heart of Thailand's capital displays hedonism at its finest with all the pleasures of fashion, entertainment and nightlife only steps away.

But even with such a limited template, the quick shiftin»,» round the world hedonism encountered in World Grand Prix felt very familiar.

Motherwell took the haptic magic of the best of dada / surrealism and the cool hedonism of late Matisse and mixed it up with the high velocity and headstrong lunge for originality that he had absorbed from his New York painter peers of the 1940s.

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.

Now in its 16th edition, ABMB has established itself as America's leading art fair, with its savvy harnessing of Swiss efficiency to South Beach hedonism effectively combining business and pleasure.

Ken Johnson, writing in The New York Times, said that they «channel the groovy hedonism of their time with terrific panache.»

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.