sybarite
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It’s difficult to imagine a worse addition to this oil-and-water mix of high-minded nonconformist cranks and hard-toiling middle-class settlers than a capitalist sybarite.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2025
The composer compared his relationship with David to an unlikely marriage — with Mr. Bacharach the cosmopolitan sybarite to his partner’s committed family man.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 9, 2023
But he himself was no sybarite; he was earnest about his invention’s benefits: how weightlessness contributed to health and well-being.
From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2018
At once confessional and curatorial, the book portrays Oswalt as not just a celluloid sybarite, but someone dead serious about the art.
From Slate ● Jan. 5, 2015
Even their partial vision could not but perceive that the hope of the house was a leper, abnormally sinful, inclined to become a sybarite.
From The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan by Lewis Wingfield
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