Epicurean

At eight o’clock the first of Brine’s employees arrived to man the register while Brine busied himself ordering what he called Epicurean necessities: pastries, im-ported cheeses and beers, pipe tobacco and cigarettes, homemade pasta and sauces, freshly baked bread, gourmet coffees, and Califor-nia wines.

Practical Demonkeeping Moore, Christopher, 1957- 1992

At eight o’clock the first of Brine’s employees arrived to man the register while Brine busied himself ordering what he called Epicurean necessities: pastries, imported cheeses and beers, pipe tobacco and cigarettes, homemade pasta and sauces, freshly baked bread, gourmet coffees, and California wines.

Practical Demonkeeping Moore, Christopher, 1957- 1992

One line of thinking, sometimes referred to as the Epicurean line, is utilitarian.

Think Progress » Washington Post on access to prewar intel: 2005

One line of thinking, sometimes referred to as the Epicurean line, is utilitarian.

Think Progress » Can Bush Be Trusted Again? 2005

One line of thinking, sometimes referred to as the Epicurean line, is utilitarian.

Think Progress » What The Senate Intel Commitee Found: Bush Admin Manipulated Case For War 2005

This has been called the Epicurean Hypothesis, because Epicurus, while nominally admitting the existence of God, denied the creation of the world, and ascribed its origin to atoms supposed to have been endued with motion or certain inherent properties and powers, and to have been self-existent and eternal.

Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws James Buchanan 1837

My take is that she is 'Epicurean' eye candy and her lack of actual skill is aptly demonstrated by the fact that she knows not how to use a knife but resorts to using a mezzaluna on the most impractical things.

At My Table 2008

St. Evremond was a kind of Epicurean philosopher, and drew his own character in the following terms, in a letter to Count de Grammont.

Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

Even to-day, when we call a person an "Epicurean," we think of him as a selfish pleasure seeker.

Early European History Hutton Webster

Christian who in fact is only a kind of Epicurean, and who, with his belief that “faith saves,” carries the principle of Hedonism _as far as possible_ — far beyond all intellectual honesty.

The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872