Word: sensualistic
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...which are dear to you." Clim is a precocious but unattractive child, becomes a clever but unattractive young man. He goes to the university at St. Petersburg, transfers to the university at Moscow, joins the kaleidoscopic crowd of young intellectuals, who drink, smoke, make love, talk, talk, talk. A sensualist, without strong affections, Clim tries to imagine himself in love with Lidia; he becomes her lover, is relieved not to have the affair end in marriage. There is no upshot to the story; with a description of the Exposition at Nizhni-Novgorod it comes to an abrupt...
Henri-Marie Beyle, who called himself, among other pseudonyms, Baron de Stendhal-sensualist, cynic, soldier, exile, diplomat, author-wrote his first novel at 44 and said of himself: "Je serai compris ners 1900 [I shall be understood about...
...pure spirit only to be dragged back to the slough of human passions. The human types chosen to epitomize extant evolutionary types are the horse-faced woman of London society; the young aviator who just misses loving his machine more than his woman; Martha, earthy female; Patrick, vivid sensualist in restless search of the meaning of life. By ordinary standards, their story is howling melodrama, but in a setting of cosmic proportions it fades to the decent outlines of engrossing human narrative. Lost in the eerie privacy of a London fog, Ann and Patrick recognize that their life-long friendship...
...Rome as the public mistress of Caesar and forthwith begins to criticize Rome, Caesar, and every one else except Antony and a few other of the Roman jeunesse doree whose appetites for wine and illicit love are as strong as hers. Her philosophy is Hedonistic; she proclaims herself a sensualist and not satisfied with the fast pace of the Romans she attempts to outdistance them. It is very plain that the author has carefully studied all of the vices of ancient Rome and is attempting to shock the reader by revealing them through the veil of satire. Seldom does...
...took the stand, he delivered himself as follows: "Captain Wright made a foul and loathsome charge against my father.? It was a revolting charge, which of course made me angry almost to an ungovernable extent. It was a charge which made my father out to be a foul sensualist and a foul hypocrite, and the charge was therefore a foul one! It was a deadly insult to every member of my family. A charge so foul and loathsome could only have been made by a foul-minded man, and I repeat that because of that he is a FOUL...