sybaritism

If it's too painful for the super-rich to abandon their stratospheric sybaritism, Congress should at least impose a luxury tax on private jets to offset their environmental impact.

Corporate America, Ground Your Jets 2009

Even for free, but, God please sabe me from the expat retiremant sybaritism.

Retirement jitters... or ... does Mexico live up to your expectations? 2005

This bracing, Spartan existence excites Octavius's imagination, whereas the thought of Egyptian sybaritism fills him with loathing.

Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002

He'd crowded a great deal of sybaritism into his quarters.

Inconstant Star Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1991

Though baths and showers had to be taken in this large structure with its ten separate cubicles, the big house and all the smaller houses were liberally endowed with indoor water-closet toilets, an unheard-of degree of opulence envious Gilly residents had been caught calling sybaritism.

The Thorn Birds McCullough, Colleen 1977

Then yielding to an involuntary fit of sybaritism, I unhooked the bellows and tried to get the fire to burn.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

His start at fifteen dollars a week had been more than he expected; and though his one weekly evening of mild sybaritism ate up all his margin, and his successful sartorial experiments consumed his private surplus, he had no cause for worry, since his salary had been shortly increased to twenty, and even more shortly thereafter to twenty-five.

Success A Novel Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914

He knew perfectly well that he merely had been making a pretense of enjoying that sybaritism, putting on his new clubman airs along with his dye and his toupee.

When Egypt Went Broke Holman Day 1900

It argues that the taste for the legitimate, the sane in literature, has not yet been drowned in the septic sea of fin de siècle slop -- that, despite the enervating influence of an all-pervasive sensationalism, or sybaritism, there be still minds capable of relishing the rugged, strong enough to digest the mental pabulum furnished by a really masculine writer.

The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1. 1898

His poetry is the quintessence of æsthetic voluptuousness, such as was evolved on the soil of the sybaritism of the landed gentry in the circles of the '40's of the nineteenth century.

A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections Isabel Florence Hapgood 1889