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The puffin seems eminently suitable to be our national bird: a dapper little character who is equally at home on sea or land, given to hedonistic feasting when the seasons allow, but also capable of austere self-denial (they spend their winters out in the North Atlantic).
The dancefloors at clubs like the Pratersauna (Waldsteingartenstrasse 135, 1020; pratersauna.tv) and Fluc, with its bunkeresque and altogether more anarchic downstairs space, Fluc Wanne (Praterstern 5, 1020; fluc.at), overflow with hedonistic crowds of beat-seeking twentysomethings.
The next fortnight sees a wave of "closing parties", with superclubs such as Amnesia and Space bidding a hedonistic farewell to the summer.
According to Jonathan's theory, a long spell of sunshine would make Ireland a nation of lazy, sleepy, hedonistic Sancho Panzas rather than a rising mass of raging rebellious Ches.
"It's a complicated story, and I have to be careful where I go, but let's just say I got into a hedonistic existence, drink, drugs, and a whole other piece I cannot go into – not concerning my wife, but my family of origin".
These were early symptoms of the syphilis he most probably contracted during his hedonistic twenties (a period he recreates in an unusually touching story of 1890, "Mouche").
In a subtler register he traces the city's contrasting moods: a melancholy known as huzun competing with a hedonistic , happy-go-lucky impulse which Turks (and Greeks) call keyif.This quirky establishment, with its wood-and-iron lift and gaudy marble, turns out to be an accurate barometer for wider developments.
Among the groups filling the gap are British Pakistanis and Bangladeshis, who are less likely to drink or take drugs than their white peers.Just as important, young people have less money with which to indulge their hedonistic instincts (see article).
In theory this would break political deadlock by helping moderates, such as, well, a certain hedonistic Austrian.
The last Labour government's attempt to introduce a continental-style café culture with 24-hour licensing probably helped to make drinking more suburban and less hedonistic : if pubs in the sticks stay open an hour later, punters are less likely to get the bus into town.
If his uncensoriousness suits hedonistic California particularly well, it also seems to chime with changes in American opinion more generally.
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The adjective "hedonistic " primarily functions as a pre-modifier, describing nouns associated with lifestyles, behaviors, or philosophies centered around pleasure. Ludwig AI confirms its standard usage in denoting a devotion to pleasure, which is reflected in various examples.
Expression frequency: Very common
