Rather than epicureanism the image of two spoons evokes conviviality. back.    From Wordnik.com.  [Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro] Reference

It is an ancient philosophical term for materialism, epicureanism, or any secularism.    From Wordnik.com.  [REALISM IN LITERATURE] Reference

Among men he openly professed epicureanism, and gave himself the license of free talk.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Start in Life] Reference

Her instinctive epicureanism demanded that the scene of these evocations should not be sordid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sacrifice] Reference

They are incompatible with the sense of taste in its epicureanism, and their gratification is of a very bodily order.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866] Reference

That subtle stoicism, that unsentimental epicureanism, that kind of reckless hopelessness, of course, fascinated the women.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Captain's Doll] Reference

But what this movement really offers under its new catchword is simply a subtler form of epicureanism, a finer self-indulgence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics] Reference

And then one had to realize that he was a member of a big, old empire, fallen into a sort of epicureanism, and a little bitter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Captain's Doll] Reference

Now quietness and good order, sober, discreet, self-seeking, decorous epicureanism and the rest, are not precisely the virtues that will save.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

Alva, rapid and brutal, scorned such epicureanism.    From Wordnik.com.  [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference

The passage from pantheism to epicureanism is not a long one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mystics and Saints of Islam] Reference

His weak side is his epicureanism, with its tinge of grossness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amiel's Journal] Reference

Is not asceticism superior epicureanism, fasting, refined gormandising?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Over Strand and Field] Reference

This is epicureanism, pure and simple, such as we find it in the odes of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mystics and Saints of Islam] Reference

It is devoid of Omar's mysticism and epicureanism, and appallingly synthetic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10] Reference

Spartan epicureanism, he did eat -- and bravely accepted the bilious consequences!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Uncle Of An Angel 1891] Reference

Greek vitality and nerve-force, is epicureanism, the theory of salvation of paganism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Antichrist] Reference

The refined Catulus was also an adherent of epicureanism, though he also attached himself to the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius] Reference

He is too deep a sceptic even to remain at the point of taking seriously his own aesthetic epicureanism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations] Reference

A woman, a Queen, a Stuart, could not attain, and perhaps ought not to have attained, this epicureanism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Angling Sketches] Reference

To be comfortable there, he had only to follow his natural inclination, which was, he tells us, epicureanism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saint Augustin] Reference

"Cras amet qui nunquam amavit, quique amavit, eras amet," may be called the "last word" of expiring epicureanism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius] Reference

It is a healthier epicureanism, with enough stoicism to make happiness safe in case that circumstances should frown.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2)] Reference

Sensuality and superficial epicureanism were at once the taste and the destruction of many of the young minds of the country.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology] Reference

But it was Benham who stood between Prothero and that rather coarsely conceived epicureanism that seemed his logical destiny.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Research Magnificent] Reference

Although Froude enjoyed with avidity the conversation of his chosen friends, he was not satisfied with intellectual epicureanism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Froude] Reference

For some unknown reason my comment on this ongoing discussion was posted on "epicureanism and empire" marcfrans on Fri, 2009-02-06 05: 51.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe] Reference

Thus it was, nevertheless, that Lord Byron practiced epicureanism with regard to his food, making very rare exceptions when he consented to dine out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord Byron jugé par les témoins de sa vie. English] Reference

It struggles to maintain itself in stoicism and epicureanism against the rising claims of human happiness to be considered as the goal of philosophy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius] Reference

They were mostly men of ease and wealth, and satisfied with earthly enjoyments, and inclined to the epicureanism which marked many of the Greek philosophers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ancient States and Empires] Reference

But his career and genius have given him somehow the secret of a literary mixture novel and fascinating in the last degree: he blends the airy epicureanism of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography] Reference

It is not possible to mistake the epicureanism of the imagination, delighting itself in an aesthetic spectacle, for the struggles of a soul passionately in search of truth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amiel's Journal] Reference

And I must admit, too, that the most advanced and independent of my colleagues did not continue their task without bitter self-derision and a sort of melancholy epicureanism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bride of Dreams] Reference

The second way out is epicureanism.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Confession] Reference

That is the secret of the truest epicureanism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guide to Reading — the Pocket University Volume XXIII] Reference

(See also epicureanism, existentialism, idealism, materialism, nihilism, pragmatism, stoicism, and utilitarianism.) 2.    From Wordnik.com.  [philosophy] Reference