Sentence examples for devotion to pleasure from inspiring English sources

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".

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.

He celebrates Robert Mitchum's "carefree, rangy masculinity," Roger Vadim's "devotion to physical pleasure," and Paul Newman's "original and mesmerizing" beauty (although he does call him "dull" and note that he didn't have "much of a behind").

Brue's depiction of herself as a bumbling innocent abroad isn't entirely believable, but her approach to other cultures is refreshingly humble, and her devotion to the pleasures of bathing with strangers makes a seductive case for "skinship," in which, naked together in the same water, "you do away with all the normal social barriers in life".

She lodged with a Parisian family, whose fanatical devotion to the pleasures of the table she portrayed to comic effect in her French Provincial Cooking (1960).

Here, the variety of dishes -- 20 antipasti alone -- and the care taken in preparation -- underscores the family's devotion to culinary pleasures.

Plus a commitment to pleasure.

All of this is keyed to pleasure.