epicureanism

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a doctrine of hedonism that was defended by several ancient Greek philosophers

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The eluted cDNAs were polished with Pfu polymerase (Stratagene), ligated into pCR-Script Amp SK(+) vector, and transformed in Epicurian coli XL-MRF' (Stratagene).
His enigmatic lithograph, possibly of cupped black hands or of a tentacular plant against a blue background, gestures to the tenderness and insecurities written into L'Alchimie des roves, while Kama Kamanda's descriptive preface points to the recurrent themes of solitude and mirages present in her poetry and highlights the poems' praise of sensuality and their epicurian penchant.
The final three chapters are meditations on related topics: the empty tomb of Jesus, considered in the light of Walter Pater's Marius the Epicurian of 1885; the meaning of Maya Lin's Vietnam War Monument in Washington DC; and out attempts to overcome the horror we feel for the unburied dead through photography and other memorial gestures.
Hyde (1886) and Arthur Machen's The Great God Pan (1894), while the self-development theme relates it to the novel of self-development, of which Walter Pater's Marius the Epicurian (1885) and the unfinished Gaston de Latour (1888) are perhaps the most obvious generic models, given Pater's acknowledged influence on Wilde.
ANTHONY HOPKINS stars as epicurian serial-killer Hannibal Lecter, enjoying liberty as an art gallery academic in Florence.
as the Epicurian adage rightly has it: when death is there, we are not, and when we are there, death is not--really, we should not fear it.
Such romantic modernism also bore for these writers the stigma of enervated masculinity, the germ of homosexual decadence transmitted from Walter Pater's Marius the Epicurian and Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray to the various products of Bloomsbury, Scott Moncrieff's translations of Proust, and Radcliffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness.
His came to visit and, throwing caution to the wind, ate the delicious food this epicurian country had to offer and she lost weight, too.
He is also an epicurian of some stature, but only on home ground.
With one eye on a dwindling post holiday bank balance, I filled a Tesco trolley with their value line products only, then challenged Paul, a cookery lecturer in the catering department at Pontypridd College, Rhydyfelin and Wales Chairman of Epicurian World Masterchefs, to rustle up something appetising for supper.
The cigarette smoking social workers who may be found with their feet on their desk at times do not always inspire the feeling of confidence and conviction of interest on the part of some of our Baptist leaders to whom tobacco and other epicurian [sic] pleasures are anathema.
The initial cutlery launch will consist of two lines called Ultra and Epicurian. Both lines will be priced the same, but will have different looks, with Ultra featuring a contemporary molded handle and the Epicurian line a classic riveted handle.