Sentence examples for a devotion to pleasure from inspiring English sources

Mr. Shafer seems to be trying to update the sympathetic critique of gay male sexual culture that Larry Kramer offered 25 years ago in his novel, "Faggots" -- to take hedonism seriously as a mode of self-discovery while suggesting how hazardous too single-minded a devotion to pleasure can be.

His lifestyle was opulent and characterized by an excessive devotion to pleasure.

In popular parlance, Epicureanism thus means devotion to pleasure, comfort, and high living, with a certain nicety of style.

But in their devotion to pleasure, these hedonists finally aren't much different from the boors they left behind.

The heroine's defence of her husband is that he is a rebel whose obsessive devotion to pleasure creates, in Donald Keene's translation, "an imperishable cathedral of vice".

The dish is a distillation of Lin's cooking: her propensity for cross-cultural flavors; her cerebral, precise cooking style, driven as much by ideas and technique as ingredients; a sense of pointed modernism underscored by a devotion to the pleasures of comfort food.

"A devotion to an absence".

A death fast requires a devotion to the cause.

A far cry from a devotion to homemaking.

"He represents a devotion to imagination and to intellect.

Develop a devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary.