Combine that with a hedonistic, 650-bottle wine list and a cheese trolley on a level with France's best, and you understand why you hear sighs from the next table, and your own.
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Set to music, this all-encompassing artistic experience is just simply a hedonistic exercise in art, color and space.
As were, arguably, the heavily decorated codpieces in Gotham Chamber Opera's production of "Eliogabalo, " a Baroque opera about a hedonistic Roman ruler.
As were, arguably, the heavily decorated codpieces in Gotham Chamber Orchestra's production of "Eliogabalo, " a Baroque opera about a hedonistic Roman ruler.
They spent a hedonistic summer painting the Oxford Union debating chamber.
But what they are all trying to sell is a hedonistic lifestyle, as well as that elusive cachet which so many young and not so young people aspire to: coolness.
He cast himself as Prince Nikolaus von Wildeliebe-Rauffenburg, the hedonistic scion of a fading noble family whose parents want to marry him off to a homely corn-plaster heiress (Zasu Pitts).
Since then he has quickly earned celebrity status in Norway, where people are fascinated by the rags-to-riches story of a man who lived on the streets for many years and lived a hedonistic lifestyle.
In theory this would break political deadlock by helping moderates, such as, well, a certain hedonistic Austrian.
While the chicest party hotels enjoy a reputation for tolerating a certain amount of hedonistic excess, don't mistake them for party-'til-you-drop bacchanalias.
His Ibiza, with its vividly painted landscape and plentiful harvests, seems to exist in a different temporal space to the hedonistic playground this corner of the Balearics is usually associated with.
While these matches may work eating al fresco on a summer's day, when it comes to a northern climate, I'm looking for something a little more luscious that matches the hedonistic simplicity of the pizza.
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He collaborated with Mies on New York's finest modern skyscraper, the Seagram Building, before embarking on a series of big buildings of his own that followed the lead of the talented young architects he courted, encouraged and commissioned in a process of patronage and exploitation that kept him creatively alive, borrowing shamelessly from their work for the hedonistic dilettantism that became his personal style.
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