There's sort of an elegant, causal hedonism here. Not decadent, not raffish, not Key West. But we like to have fun.

The development of the city centre is just about consumerism and hedonism.

It's quite affectionate - she is our heroine and it wasn't intended as an expose. It shows the excesses of hedonism and goes some way to explain the mental breakdown that led to her disappearance from public life.

Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth

It's quite affectionate. She is our heroine and it wasn't intended as an exposé. It shows the excesses of hedonism and goes some way to explain the mental breakdown that led to her disappearance from public life.

Pleasure vociferates more than Wisdom.