Example Sentences

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Now, Washington wine lovers can enjoy hedonistically ripe efforts from a sultry vintage such as 2015 while patiently waiting to see how the 2020 and 2021 reds will score with critics and consumers.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 7, 2021

In the Journal of Popular Culture, film scholar Lesley Speed wrote about how 1980s teen comedies often depict “young, middle-class men’s presumed right to behave hedonistically on other people’s territory.”

From Salon • Oct. 5, 2018

“Gluttony,” for instance, on its right-hand side shows mother, father and daughter assembled at an elegantly set table, while on its left, the same trio is hedonistically gorging themselves.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 19, 2013

If the human soul is immortal, the world is economically or hedonistically good; if not, it is bad.

From Tragic Sense Of Life by Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford)