viveur

• He wanted first editions of the poets; had a liking for old furniture and old silver, for fine pictures, Eastern carpets and Renascence bronzes; in fine, he had all the artist's desires as well as those of the poet and "viveur". —  Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions
• He's not aiming at the street drinker or the schoolkid - he's targeting that endangered species: the Swedish bon viveur. —  The Local - Sweden's news in English
• And now, we've got our hands on Richards 'on-location contract rider listing the perks that the Rolling Stones guitarist and legendary, uh, bon viveur needs in his trailer. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
• An urbane, witty, bookish, Cambridge-educated bon viveur, with a Spanish Galician wife, he is a writer whose high spirits can easily make one forget both the immense bravery of his consistently fearless reporting in such a dangerous environment over thirty years-Rashid was recently sentenced to death in absentia by the Pakistan Taliban-and the deep scholarship and research that give his work its depth. —  The New York Review of Books
• But in Handel's case this curious notion rides piggyback on a pursed-lip disapproval of his moneymaking, his fondness for ridiculously implausible opera plots, his high-handed way with stroppy sopranos, and his general air of a bon viveur. —  Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph

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