sybarites

• Talk about sybarites - this was on the very eve of the great 1997 crash.
• It is the underworld of conspiracy theory, a subculture in which uncouth, satanic sybarites share fantasies of fighting heroically against a huge conspiracy that will depressurize the frail vessel of human hopes faster than you can say —  Original Signal - Transmitting Digg
• Here was the haunt of the sybarites, whose gay barks skimmed the shallow waters of the Lucrine lake; and not far off slumbered in its volcanic hollow that other lake, Avernus, renowned in legend and poetry, through whose caverns, fable had it, lay the entrance to the world of the dead. —  A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C.
• We are no sybarites, to feed on sweet-meats and cakes; but we are men who have a noble aim in view, attained only by a thorny path. —  Old Fritz and the New Era
• We will discuss them side by side as sybarites, hang ourselves around with cigarette smoke, drink wine, and presently coffee. —  The Vanished Messenger

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