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 just as Augusta sees the inner sybarite within the dull Henry, Mr. Havergal saw that a timeless, theater-celebrating play might be extracted from Greene’s dated novel.

From New York Times • Oct. 15, 2015

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

It is a pity that he is not still alive to be asked the various and numerous questions, from which he carefully retired to his sybarite seclusion in the Swan, at Frankfort-on-the-Main.

From The Children of the World by Heyse, Paul