(1) In a city where liberal 19th-century culture was menaced by anti-semitic populist politics - where Adolf Hitler wandered round bitterly nursing a sense of thwarted genius - the middle class escaped into hedonistic dreams, and invented modern sexuality.
(2) The often hedonistic vibe has prompted criticism of the fair, including accusations that it attracts scenesters with little real interest in contemporary art.
(3) Nutt himself has tried "a bit of cannabis, and speed once or twice", but the only drug he consumes now is alcohol, making him neither, as he keeps pointing out, a prohibitionist nor a hedonist.
(4) But clearly hedonistic consciousness is capable of overcoming our biological programming.
(5) And that is how I became a religious maniac and a total hedonist at the same time.
(6) She said: "Under the carapace of glittering, hedonistic celebrity, the ooze of a very different and more dangerous lifestyle has seeped out for all to see."
(7) His Asylum debut, Warren Zevon (1976), bristled with west coast rock deities - including Glenn Frey and Don Henley, of the Eagles, and Lindsay Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, from Fleetwood Mac - though he seemed hell-bent on sabotaging the hedonistic myth of the golden state.
(8) Moir also called for "the truth" to emerge "about the exact circumstances of his strange and lonely death" and said: "Once again, under the carapace of glittering, hedonistic celebrity, the ooze of a very different and more dangerous lifestyle has seeped out for all to see".
(9) Karl and I would get to keep our little unit intact, and our hedonistic lifestyle, while still having a child: a part-time child.
(10) Bell, appointed chairman of the commission, stressed the problems of a post-industrial economy, modern society's technocratic structure versus its hedonistic culture and the increasingly unrealistic levels of public and private expectations.
(11) Photograph: Alamy Bowie’s relationship with his wife had been disintegrating under the pressures of success and the couple’s hedonistic, promiscuous lifestyle, and they would divorce in 1980.
(12) (Nostalgic songs score equally with the purely hedonistic songs on positive feelings evoked, but the nostalgic songs also score much higher on sadness.)
(13) A hedonist In his autumn, romance lightly worn, And now first signs of tristesse , Faint strains of a hunting horn.
(14) Hedonistic, vacuous, self-important and delusional.
(15) He left his children's mother for Emmanuelle star Sylvia Kristel , with whom he had a brief, hedonistic, tempestuous relationship with violence on both sides.
(16) It now has branches in London and New York, but this vast Dublin brewpub (with possibly the longest bar in the city) is the nerve centre for craft ales in the hedonistic Temple Bar neighbourhood.
(17) This was New York's last golden clubbing period before gentrification and Mayor Giuliani tore out its hedonistic soul… Frankie provided the soundtrack.
(18) He was the nonconformist hero of Ionesco’s Rhinoceros at the Royal Court in 2007 and the hedonistic historian in Rattigan’s After The Dance at the National in 2010 .
(19) It's no longer a hedonistic drug taken in nightclubs.
(20) If Christopher was louche, hedonistic and iconoclastic, Hitchens would be fastidious, puritanical and Christian.
Utilitarianism
Definition:
(n.) The doctrine that the greatest happiness of the greatest number should be the end and aim of all social and political institutions.
(n.) The doctrine that virtue is founded in utility, or that virtue is defined and enforced by its tendency to promote the highest happiness of the universe.
(n.) The doctrine that utility is the sole standard of morality, so that the rectitude of an action is determined by its usefulness.
Example Sentences:
(1) Endless utilitarian apartment blocks and gigantic hotels sprawl seemingly at random in the so-called "coastal cluster".
(2) Morally questionable in their utilitarian approach, RCTs are claimed by some to be in direct violation of the second form of Kant's Categorical Imperative.
(3) Gillon rejects each of these arguments, contending that avoiding deceit is a basic moral norm that can be defended from utilitarian as well as deontological points of view.
(4) The epidemiologist is concerned with the scientific ethic which is duty-based, related to deontology or to rule utilitarian theories of ethics.
(5) All major political parties ground their work environment policies in utilitarian concepts that trade worker health and safety for economic considerations.
(6) This technique represents a utilitarian approach to stability screening of compounds in solution, aqueous or otherwise, where chromatographic separation and analytical methodology for the pure compound are available.
(7) DCMS secretary Maria Miller last week promised to fight for the arts: untouched by loftier values her leaden utilitarianism in calling the arts a "compelling product" came under fire, but she did lay out a good commercial case.
(8) This utilitarian feature allows the surgeon to eliminate residual anteroposterior traction following complete membrane peeling by extending relaxing retinotomies and tacking the posterior cut edge of the retina securely between the ora serrata and the equator.
(9) We document how plants are utilized by each culture for nutritional, medicinal, and functional (utilitarian) purposes and aim to investigate if these uses arose independently through a parallel experimentation process or were learned by one tribe from the other.
(10) Brooks defends his 1984 article, "Dignity and cost effectiveness: a rejection of the utilitarian approach to death," from criticisms in an editorial and companion articles by George S. Robertson and John Harris that appeared in the September 1984 issue of the Journal of Medical Ethics.
(11) The utilitarian function of the study of human hair growth is illustrated.
(12) Finally, we propose a model that may be useful for lessening the conflict between retributive and utilitarian perspectives.
(13) And also, undoubtedly, because the car and the artwork are both commodity fetishes whose place in culture is more than utilitarian.
(14) The ethical values of human life slightly took up the position of utilitarian.
(15) Wedgwood's fondness for good, plain, utilitarian ware – hence his claim "We shall conquer the world" – has also helped in the past decade.
(16) The problem of setting priorities is discussed within the framework of utilitarianism, right-based theories and the contractarian theory of John Rawls.
(17) He maintains that the utilitarian principle of maximizing happiness by improving health, minimizing suffering, and prolonging life is not promoted by granting physicians the authority to deceive patients or to make decisions for them in areas of moral and subjective choice.
(18) Opened last year by the Irish Youth Hostel Association ( anoige.ie ), its somewhat institutional architecture, utilitarian concrete floors and Ikea furnishings may be too spartan for some, but the bright interiors and views of Glencree valley more than compensated.
(19) The 'moral right principle' is compared with the well-known utilitarianism and 'the worst-off principle'.
(20) They’ve turned our utilitarian product into a thing of luxury.