sybarite

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.

“The Sassoons,” opening this weekend at the Jewish Museum, is a panoramic survey of four generations of traders, socialites, soldiers and sybarites.

The composer compared his relationship with David to an unlikely marriage — with Mr. Bacharach the cosmopolitan sybarite to his partner’s committed family man.

Like it or not, diners are automatically part of this caste system, updated versions of the sybarites depicted on the many murals.

All too often Ive comes off less as a visionary than a sybarite.