The hedonism loses its shimmer only in the 1960s, when Mitchell is living mostly in Paris, involved with the French Canadian painter Jean-Paul Riopelle in what amounts to a marriage without a license.
Not to mention the reader – for the words eat, pray and love might in themselves be an invocation of the lost or prohibited pleasures of femininity: hedonism, devotion, sensuality.
Anderson mimics the essential joke of Altman's film – that when the counterculture lost its idealism (and ratcheted up its hedonism) it became just as selfishly sinister as the world it was designed to overthrow.
As James Baldwin and others pointed out, Mailer was no hipster himself; he was far too earnest ever to lose himself in spontaneous hedonism.
He notes what is lost and gained by the deliberate omission of these contexts from the poem itself, and asks, "What is the cost to a reader's self-esteem and resistance to vicarious hedonism, what must be discounted, for The Solitary Reaper to work for a reader justly and adequately aware?" Prynne's volume is titled Field Notes.
Earlier Cornel West had defended philosophy, saying, "There is something to be said for intellectual hedonism".
She loved Miami, the city where she died, for its hedonism and modernity.
Following an abandoned erotic encounter, Gardner takes Brooke to task for misogyny, "hedonism" and for intimidating her into sex.
The institution was famed for the hedonism of its students, who indulged in ritual displays of wealth.
So much for the hedonism.
