hedonism
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I want my students and children’s friends to be healthy, but I also understand the gesture, the fashionable nihilism, the hedonism, the why not.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026
But it's a carefully crafted and nuanced record, where hedonism gives way to vulnerability, as she describes the doubts she has over friendships, motherhood and commercial success.
From BBC • May 22, 2025
The combination of adolescence’s slippery hedonism and the French Riviera’s languid air spurred the explosive popularity of Françoise Sagan’s 1954 novel “Bonjour Tristesse,” written when the author was herself a teenager.
From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2025
After a breezy “Rock Your Body” and embracing 2000s club hedonism on “SexyBack,” a harnessed-up Timberlake returned for his “Mirrors” encore atop the LED vessel that carried him above the crowd.
From Seattle Times • May 3, 2024
Its swaths of deep brush and arable land made it great for farming but less appealing for honeymoons and hedonism.
From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore
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