Hedonistic

Another metaphor, I’m afraid.” “Nevertheless, go on.” “And that very abandonment of effort; that growing inertia; that lapse into softness and into a decadent and hedonistic culture, means the ruin of the Plan.

GAMONT: third planet of Niushe; noted for its hedonistic culture and exotic sexual practices.

Partly it was the ancient problem of the cooperation of regulars with irregulars; partly it was the fault of old Mohammed Ali el Beidawi, who, put over the Beni Atiyeh, had come with them to water, cried, “Noon-halt!” and sat there for two months, pandering to that hedonistic streak among the Arabs which made them helpless slaves of carnal indulgence.

She was intelligence built on profound sensitivity, without any of Malky’s hedonistic weaknesses.

The old man watched him with victorious merriment, sitting in his musty blue armchair like some satanic and hedonistic deity on a throne, a stolen U.S. Army blanket wrapped around his spindly legs to ward off a chill.