libertinism
Example Sentences
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Twenty-three years later, there’s a new yearning for that era, when dance music embodied tech-juiced libertinism and invention.
From Los Angeles Times
The lure of liberty – and libertinism – is strong, whatever age one may be.
From Seattle Times
But the tensions in “The Rules of the Game” — between the rich and the poor, between propriety and libertinism, between order and pandemonium — are so refined as to be almost sui generis.
From New York Times
The contrast is a provocative one; if Vanessa’s libertinism feels more of a piece with Bloomsbury’s contemporary reputation, Virginia’s tense and worried physicality has become — unfairly, I think — associated with her brand of modernism.
From New York Times
But to return to Silicon Valley: there is even a term for the school of thought that defines this synthesis of counterculture libertinism and techno-utopianism: it is called the California Ideology.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
