The Only Use of
hedonist
in
The Glass Castle
- He'd challenge the priest about the scientific impossibility of the miracles, and when the priest continued to ignore him, he'd get mad and yell out something about Pope Alexander VI's bastard children, or Pope Leo X's hedonism, or Pope Nicholas III's simony, or the murders committed in the name of the Church during the Spanish Inquisition.†
p. 105.6hedonism = the belief that the pursuit of pleasure is the highest good
Definition:
someone most motivated by pleasures -- often sensual pleasures