as in sensuality
excessive pursuit of fleshly pleasures
the billionaire's extravagant parties were marked by a degree of sybaritism not seen since the days of decadent Rome
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The playing of music in seventeenth-century genre paintings often suggests sensuality and pleasure of an easy, familiar kind.
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Beneath all the sensuality and beauty, there’s also a lingering melancholy that feels very familiar to me.
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Released at the tail end of Reaganomics, Carpenter’s most politically forward thriller now feels like a decoder ring for ’80s-era greed, detachment, complacency and ruthlessness.
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Does this show reveal more to me how the most vulnerable amongst us are suffering as a result of disinterest, apathy, greed?
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Desirée can so often come off a bundle of cliches of actresses of a certain age, all narcissism, hedonism and irresponsibility.
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Food and Beverage Wrapped in cascades of cherry blossom, The Orchard Room reimagines afternoon tea with unapologetic hedonism—affectionately dubbed InfiniTEA.
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