| 单词 | epicureanism |
| 例句 | It was typical of the epicureanism and optimism in this display — and the overall life and art of the Illinois-born designer. Louis Vuitton stages Virgil Abloh swansong in Paris 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z In particular, our hero's epicureanism is inconsistent; it is neither rhapsodic enough nor sufficiently integral to his character to make it seem anything but tacked on, with the addition of occasional outlandish recipes. The Last Banquet by Jonathan Grimwood – review 2013-07-20T10:01:08Z I don’t want to be the one to suggest that it’s wrong to encourage prepuscent epicureanism in a country where 46 million people are on food stamps…but it is wrong. Are Foodie Kids the Sign of End Times? 2012-04-04T12:36:38Z A languid epicureanism is the normal condition of nations which have attained a high intellectual or social civilisation, but which, through political causes, have no adequate sphere for the exertion of their energies. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z The dinner, which Kenyon had ordered with becoming care, would have satisfied the epicureanism of a Russian aristocrat. The Sins of the Children A Novel 2011-10-09T02:00:27.520Z In ethics, if we have placed Kant and stoicism far above epicureanism and Helvetius, we have guarded ourselves against an insensibility and an asceticism which are contrary to human nature. Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good 2011-05-25T02:00:17.943Z The epicureanism of Frederick's life clashed with the mystic exaltation of knighthood. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z "As we are in the Grove of Academe, let me point out that the pursuit of pleasure for its own sake was one of the corrupt forms of a decadent epicureanism," I said sternly. A Lame Dog's Diary 2011-02-04T03:00:23.707Z The life spent by the inmates appears to be a sort of religious epicureanism. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide The pre-revolutionary philosophies, filtering through society, were weakening religious restraints and producing a hypocritical conformity to tradition and a new uncertainty which inclined people to present enjoyment and epicureanism. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII No stoic has been as austere as stoicism, no epicurean as enervated as epicureanism. Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good 2011-05-25T02:00:17.943Z Epigrams, Addresses, Elegies, and Odes are also included, along with one or two of his famous poetical Epistles, modelled on those of Horace, and brimming over with genial bonhomie and good-humoured epicureanism. Allan Ramsay Famous Scots Series Dissolute, as all men of that epoch had become, he differed from all of them in his epicureanism. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern I was no longer merely shipwrecked but shipwrecked among savages who might adhere to that perverted epicureanism which esteems human fare for its flesh pots. The Portal of Dreams Miss Defourchet belonged to a family to whom the ease that money gives and a certain epicureanism of taste were natural. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 I won't say that the excellent man I speak of is the ideal curé, but I suspect he is an approach to it; he has a grain of epicureanism to an ounce of stoicism. The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 Whitman withstood the æsthetic temptation, as Amiel calls it, to which most of our poets fall a victim,—the lust for the merely beautiful, the epicureanism of the literary faculties. Whitman A Study The same relish was in both enjoyments, only one was the epicureanism of a mind that found pleasure in dissecting a young heart, and the other, quite as important to him, was a delicious sensuality. Mabel's Mistake Now this raises Solomon far far above the malarial swamps of mere epicureanism, which excluded God entirely. Old Groans and New Songs Being Meditations on the Book of Ecclesiastes He was almost a philosopher in his epicureanism, striving always that nothing should trouble him. Is He Popenjoy? He was singularly and even richly equipped for the pursuit of friendship; while his very sensitiveness, his inherent epicureanism, which made advance so easy, made progress impossible. Beside Still Waters He is too deep a sceptic even to remain at the point of taking seriously his own aesthetic epicureanism. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations They were mostly men of ease and wealth, and satisfied with earthly enjoyments, and inclined to the epicureanism which marked many of the Greek philosophers. Ancient States and Empires Thus it was, nevertheless, that Lord Byron practiced epicureanism with regard to his food, making very rare exceptions when he consented to dine out. My Recollections of Lord Byron He was filled with the spirit of religion, and lived the simplest life, on a few pence a day, in a period of voluptuous epicureanism. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics And thus, though he gradually drifted back into a species of spiritual epicureanism, he always felt grateful for his sojourn in the dark world. Beside Still Waters This is epicureanism, pure and simple, such as we find it in the odes of Hafiz and the Quatrains of Omar Khayyam. Mystics and Saints of Islam Her instinctive epicureanism demanded that the scene of these evocations should not be sordid. Sacrifice He cannot bear William Hermans any longer because of his epicureanism and his lack of energy, to which he, Erasmus, certainly was a stranger. Erasmus and the Age of Reformation But what this movement really offers under its new catchword is simply a subtler form of epicureanism, a finer self-indulgence. Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics They are incompatible with the sense of taste in its epicureanism, and their gratification is of a very bodily order. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 The passage from pantheism to epicureanism is not a long one. Mystics and Saints of Islam It would take us too far out of our path to comment on the relation of this epicureanism to the religion of La Rochefoucauld's day, but a few words seem necessary on this subject. Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France Sensuality and superficial epicureanism were at once the taste and the destruction of many of the young minds of the country. History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology What stands most closely related to them, though with a large admixture of Greek vitality and nerve-force, is epicureanism, the theory of salvation of paganism. The Antichrist In "The Seven Wives of Bluebeard" he has retold four legends and endowed them with a philosophic content of smiling ironic doubt which accepts life as we find it and preaches a gentle disillusioned epicureanism. The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story At Kemsing, on the other hand, he had an experience of what I may fairly call the epicureanism of religion. Hugh Memoirs of a Brother Loving frankness and truth, he threw all disguises aside, and became the exponent of materialistic epicureanism naked and unashamed. Among Famous Books As he walked, he looked into the faces of the women who passed him by, struggling against his old abhorrence as against one of the sickly offshoots of an over-eclectic epicureanism. Nobody's Man Years of isolation, and a certain epicureanism of taste, from which necessity had never taken the fine edge, had made him a little intolerant. A Lost Leader Priest as he was, and strictly moral, he cultivated an innocent epicureanism, including the collection of manuscripts and the exposure of pretentious ignorance in high places. The Life of Froude In short, the whole thing is a feeler thrown out to see how far French impudence and French epicureanism in vice may carry themselves. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, September 5, 1841 The second reason for care in this neighbourhood is that epicureanism is only safe for those whose tastes lie in the direction of the simple life. Among Famous Books Turning to literature, we find in Horace a gay epicureanism, which always says: "Enjoy this life, for it will be soon over, and after death there is nothing left for us." Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology Is not asceticism superior epicureanism, fasting, refined gormandising? Over Strand and Field The 'chasse au bonheur' which Beyle was always advocating was no respectable epicureanism; it had about it a touch of the fanatical. Books and Characters French and English It is devoid of Omar's mysticism and epicureanism, and appallingly synthetic. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 Those who choose the earth-magic of Omar's epicureanism will find that the song of the spirit is broken, until they cease from the vain attempt at singing and fall into an earth-bound silence. Among Famous Books And I must admit, too, that the most advanced and independent of my colleagues did not continue their task without bitter self-derision and a sort of melancholy epicureanism. The Bride of Dreams To be comfortable there, he had only to follow his natural inclination, which was, he tells us, epicureanism. Saint Augustin It is not possible to mistake the epicureanism of the imagination, delighting itself in an aesthetic spectacle, for the struggles of a soul passionately in search of truth. Amiel's Journal Its epicureanism, its regard for the interests of the purse, its tendency to rank the administrator above the apostle, are weeds that spring up out of the soil of its marriage with the State. The Christian A Story For the most part, whenever the puritan imagines that the poet has capitulated, he is mistaken, and the apparent self-denial in the poet's life is really an exquisite sort of epicureanism. The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years It struggles to maintain itself in stoicism and epicureanism against the rising claims of human happiness to be considered as the goal of philosophy. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius That is the secret of the truest epicureanism. The Guide to Reading — the Pocket University Volume XXIII His weak side is his epicureanism, with its tinge of grossness. Amiel's Journal The theatrically tragic mood of Byron is contrasted with the easy-going, somewhat cynical epicureanism of Horace…. Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson His court at the Carleton palace was famous for the assemblage of wits and beauties and dandies, reminding us of the epicureanism which marked Versailles during the reign of Louis XV. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 09 European Statesmen The refined Catulus was also an adherent of epicureanism, though he also attached himself to the Academy. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Besides his egotism and his epicureanism, the dear uncle had another passion—to play backgammon. International Short Stories: French The taste of the Roman aristocracy, with their immense fortunes, inclined them to pomp, to extravagance, to ostentatious modes of living, to luxurious banquets, to conventionalities and ceremonies, to an unbounded epicureanism. The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. From whatever source such a tenet springs, whether from materialism, stoicism, pyrrhonism, epicureanism, atheism even, is of small matter; it is a tenet which is honorable to the holder. Imperial Purple I had thrown off the perfumed garments of epicureanism, the vesture of my servitude. Simon the Jester A woman, a Queen, a Stuart, could not attain, and perhaps ought not to have attained, this epicureanism. Angling Sketches Do you think that I could stay here contented with what you call my compensations—my art, the study of beautiful things, the calm epicureanism of the sedate and simple life? The Vanished Messenger Among men he openly professed epicureanism, and gave himself the license of free talk. A Start in Life |
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