How To Use Pleasure In A Sentence

  • I'd live the transient and ephemeral existence of a backpacker for a week, an existence of freedom and simple pleasures.
  • He did not seem overcome with pleasure at the idea of Philippa's visit, and she felt a little disappointed, but she had been interested in his talk; and as she went back to the house with Miss Mervyn, her mind was so full of it, that she felt obliged to tell her all about Tuvvy and Dennis, and her own plans for Becky's benefit. Black, White and Gray A Story of Three Homes
  • Tranmere played with a good deal more enthusiasm as the evening wore on, suggesting that Aldridge had expressed - presumably in an indelicate fashion - his sense of displeasure during the recess.
  • Dr. Orkborne, much incommoded by this second interruption, coldly begged to know his pleasure. Camilla
  • A couple have told how they are lucky to be alive after a horse pulling their carriage ran amok and started a stampede during a holiday pleasure trip.
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  • The language is amusingly flowery and the overall tone one of purposeful pleasure. Times, Sunday Times
  • His Eminence Don Pelasio de Labastida, an eighteenth century bishop of Mexico City set a scandalous example of such indulgence in earthly pleasures. To the charreada with stars in her eyes
  • At first I was minded to send a boat after them, but by this time the rafts were a good two miles beyond the harbour, and Mrs. Purchase said, 'No, they can do no good, poor dears; let them have their few hours' pleasure. ' Shining Ferry
  • Monasteries, breaking the Lawes of obedience, and being addicted to pleasures of the flesh, are become lascivious and dissolute, making the world beleeve, that whatsoever is convenient for other women, is no way unbeseeming them, as thinking in that manner to escape. The Decameron
  • He did in these extremities, as I conceive, most humbly recommend the direction of his judicial proceedings to the upright judge of judges, God Almighty; did submit himself to the conduct and guideship of the blessed Spirit in the hazard and perplexity of the definitive sentence, and, by this aleatory lot, did as it were implore and explore the divine decree of his goodwill and pleasure, instead of that which we call the final judgment of a court. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
  • The other honour that gave him particular pleasure was his honorary doctorate from Melbourne University.
  • Relaxing, in amusement at her unwonted altruism of motive, she had drawn her moleskin coat more closely around her, and settled back to wait the other woman's pleasure in returning to the bright warmth that the pale-orange ribbon of light, wavering upon the swaying platform, harbingered. Undesirables
  • We can well afford to let them stare and smile, well knowing that if a similar amount of prosperity permitted the people of other countries to travel for their pleasure in similar numbers, the result would be at the very least an equally -- shall I say undrawing-room-like contribution to cosmopolitan society? Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875
  • We must think of ourselves, not in terms of the satisfaction we get, from what we eat, or enjoy as pleasure, or entertainment today.
  • He continued he'd no doubt she would make an excellent councillor for the Ward 3 area and he had great pleasure in proposing her for the seat.
  • It was a pleasure to present the awards last Friday and to see so many adults attend to show their appreciation and support for these champions of literature.
  • Breads, pastries, rice and legume dishes were on display for the viewing and tasting pleasure of interested patrons.
  • Their pleasures derive from fulfilling internal wishes and desires and they find solitude easy to bear. Know Your Own Mind
  • Let her shelter you as is her pleasure and as her kind heart will have her do.
  • It was said that national crimes can only be, and frequently are, punished in this world by _national punishments_, and that the continuance of the slave trade, and thus giving it a national character, sanction, and encouragement, ought to be considered as justly exposing us to the displeasure and vengeance of him who is equally the Lord of all, and who views with equal eye the poor _African slave_ and his _American master_! [ The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
  • Eating has always been preeminently a human, communal and convivial pleasure. Times, Sunday Times
  • His travel books have given pleasure to generations of armchair travellers.
  • Sexual pleasure between Greek male citizens and boys was legitimate and socially sanctioned, however if the boy become a free citizen (an equal) their sexual practice become problematised.
  • Things which experience gradual withdrawings and emptyings of their nature, and great and sudden replenishments, fail to perceive the emptying, but are sensible of the replenishment; and so they occasion no pain, but the greatest pleasure, to the mortal part of the soul, as is manifest in the case of perfumes. Timaeus
  • Why do men listen with more strict attention to an inflammatory harangue, that may not be argumentative, than to a prosaical discourse, that is, to an anecdote than to a prayer, to an extravaganza than to a lecture, or derive more pleasure from pantomimic drollery than from Hamlet, or hearing an opera they do not understand than from reading an essay they do. A Controversy Between "Erskine" and "W. M." on the Practicability of Suppressing Gambling.
  • And she, warm with what Dick had just told of him, pleasured at the goodly sight of him, dwelling with her eyes on the light, high poise of head, the careless, sun-sanded hair, and the lightness, almost debonaireness, of his carriage despite his weight of body and breadth of shoulders. CHAPTER XXIII
  • It was one of these dishes that are a tasting menu in and of themselves, giving you the sensory pleasures of a voluptuous feast - only in tiny, manageable portions.
  • This trains your brain to tune into pleasure in its many forms. The Sun
  • He sighed with pleasure after the excellent meal.
  • There's a terrible scene where he is chained to a whipping post and flogged with sadistic pleasure by brutish Roman guards.
  • Our work is not drudgery, but something we are to take pleasure in today.
  • I often meet useful people at parties, so I combine business with pleasure.
  • Or Wulfgar, who was clever as a cageful of monkeys and who was as much a pleasure in company as Raven-or as skilled in his own way as Cedric. Fortress Of Frost And Fire
  • She denies me every pleasure
  • Ben rushed to his father, crowing with pleasure.
  • The cats would be livid, showing their displeasure by sulkily shunning their food and refusing to climb into bed for a goodnight cuddle. SANDS OF TIME
  • This is a world of fabulous richness and sensuous pleasure. Times, Sunday Times
  • The purpose of sport was to provide fun activities during recreation time from which people could derive plenty of pleasure, fun and enjoyment.
  • I feel pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness into gloomy and narrow reflections upon self. Chapter 1
  • Lively, pretty, and pleasure-loving, Carie had married the saintly younger brother of the minister in her hometown of Hillsboro, West Virginia, because he was preparing to go as a missionary to China, and she wanted to give herself to God. PEARL BUCK IN CHINA
  • We do not think that something is beautiful merely to me, in the way that we might say that some things just happen to give me sensuous pleasure.
  • took malicious pleasure in...watching me wince
  • Now, when you use the term fantasy, is this something you were doing for your personal pleasure? CNN Transcript Jun 27, 2005
  • Deep down, this great patriot and cricketer has taken no pleasure from one humiliation after another. Times, Sunday Times
  • Although fruits added to jellies in the way just described are chiefly for decorative effect, they do add very greatly to the pleasure of eating them; but jellied fruits, as distinguished from _fruits in jelly_, are a delicious mode of eating fruit, and where it is in abundance afford a pleasant variety. Choice Cookery
  • He is also eligible for the PHSC Yearling Lounge Line, two-year-old western pleasure and three-year old reining futurities.
  • He has expressed his pleasure with the leading U.S. presidential candidates 'views on immigration reform and the amnesty they support and his displeasure to "The New York Times" about what he calls immigrant bashing in America. CNN Transcript Feb 11, 2008
  • What we learn with pleasure we never forget. 
  • Beyond its antiquity, it is hard to say precisely what makes the Old Course such a pleasure.
  • I maintain that this disaccording between his feelings of pleasure and pain and his rational judgment constitutes the very lowest depth of ignorance.
  • Thank you for that magnificent speech yesterday, and it is my pleasure to ask you to address the assembled gathering.
  • But these pleasures are subsidiary to those afforded by James's sensibility, which transforms the squalor and pettiness of crime into the grandeur of desolation.
  • Now I, "says the saucy piece, teasing my lips with hers," have true lovers, because I delight to give pleasure as well as to take it - especially with my English bahadur. Flashman And The Mountain Of Light
  • Pleasure seeking often enslaves people in a vicious cycle of addiction…
  • The here and now is about sensual pleasure, and I don't want thoughts of love ruining that.
  • Two of my star sign cards in Thoth are Pleasure and Debauchery. Spooky « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog
  • The people who live here are belittled with irony and satire for their neat ambitions and their careful pleasures. Times, Sunday Times
  • Fishing boats and pleasure - craft followed the great liner into the harbour.
  • In the pictures his pride and pleasure are almost unbearable to look at.
  • A pleasure trip or an outing rejuvenates your energy and relationships today.
  • I mean, who wouldn't want to be a human bowling ball, or fall face first onto a rolling concrete drum or land on my sauce bits for viewing pleasure.
  • Puddings are a small pleasure in a sea of grey days, one of those things that make it bearable. The Sun
  • What, in brief, is the operative relation between aesthetic pleasure and criticism? Response to Thomas Pfau
  • He is a pleasure to watch and deserves any praise he gets. Times, Sunday Times
  • I resist the view that the pleasures of fiction derive from its purely thought-experimental aspects.
  • Instead, I found myself lusting after bananas, marmalade, muesli, and the simple pleasure of a glass of cold milk.
  • However, the libidinous cad may find many pleasures in the licentious glance along the pew.
  • Walking is a many-sided pleasure and essential for those who lead a sedentary life.
  • It must be clear to every reflecting person that by always proposing what he knew could not be honourably acceded to, he kept up the appearance of being a pacificator, while at the same time he ensured to himself the pleasure of carrying on the war. Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
  • I'm sure Sergen meant well and simply wanted to share his pleasure with the widest possible audience, yet there is a dark interpretation of these events: namely, that the Besiktas players were attempting some kind of wind-up.
  • The average businessman of the right calibre is not prepared to give up the pleasure and flexibility of private employment to serve and administer a fund that has political strings attached to it. Peace Through Investment—A challenge to the Capitalist Countries
  • In earlier ages, Christians sought to purify themselves by abstaining from enjoyment, lest they enjoy material pleasure more than they enjoy God.
  • No man can be brave who considers pain the greatest evil of life; or temperate, who regards pleasure as the highest good. 
  • But to frame an abstract idea of happiness, prescinded from all particular pleasure, or of goodness from everything that is good, this is what few can pretend to. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, by George Berkeley
  • This must have been owing to her recollection of the audacious stranger in the neighbouring turret at the Fleur de Lys; but did that discomposure express displeasure? Quentin Durward
  • It is always a pleasure to find a work that blends a true sense of art with solid scientific information.
  • Whilst men generally rely on visual stimulation for their kicks, women prefer aural pleasure.
  • But I nary not mention my displeasure and dread and off we embarked to Spencer's Plaza on a journey of discovery.
  • ‘I still haven't had the pleasure of knowing your name,’ she murmured in a husky voice.
  • It is also unlike most other books on the subject because it is a pleasure to read. The Times Literary Supplement
  • And then, his face pink with the pleasure of cocaine and meperidine, he swung the glass hard into her left lens implant, smashing vision into blood and light. Wonder Woman and the Lasso of Truth
  • Its simple pleasures include a cute brass hand pump to fill up your bathroom sink and dinner à deux on your deck. Times, Sunday Times
  • The unhappy helplessness of the man in the foxskin coat evidently afforded him great pleasure. The Schoolmistress and other stories
  • The pleasure of not having to work quickly palled.
  • The descriptive passages when she has tea with friends, or tends her garden, or shops for blouses to fit her ample bosom are a pleasure and add a completeness to the character.
  • The horseman gave a cry of astonishment and pleasure, and without a word wheeled his horse and galloped past back at headlong speed toward the castle. The Boy Knight
  • It was cool without being chill, and took the warmth of one's hand flatteringly soon, as if it liked to do so, yet kept its freshness; it was smooth without being glossy, mat as a pearl, and as delightful to roll in the hand; and of an exquisite, alarming frangibility that gave it, in its small way, that flavour which belongs to pleasures that are dogged by the danger of a violent end. The Judge
  • I had invited a few friends of mine, along with two officials I had the pleasure of meeting through some work-related interviews, to dinner at my place.
  • She was careful to thank the conductor in Greek and was answered,' ` S a pleasure, miss. THE QUEST FOR K
  • It has incurred the displeasure of purists. Times, Sunday Times
  • Since he's everybody's official bigmouth, he can have the pleasure of playing switchboard for you club people from here on out. STONE CITY
  • From there, demands for commissions came his way, and he has built everything from meditation treehouses in Hungary and outside Rome, to his most recent project: a treehouse on the river Spree for a client in Berlin, integrated into a weeping willow, that is for "meeting friends, writing and pleasure," he says. Closer to the Stars
  • We did not take any pleasure in having to drag the process out until we got the answers we all required.
  • They have had the pleasure of discovering that no one was betraying them after all. Times, Sunday Times
  • It gives me enormous pleasure to welcome my next guest.
  • The next morning you can loaf around at your pleasure, and in the afternoon there will be a demonstration of a back massage, followed by gentle exercise and some stimulating oils to prepare you for your journey home.
  • Ophelia leaps about and barks, indignant at a style of hunting so contrary to her habits; and Sir Ralph, astride the stone railing, is smoking a cigar and, as usual, looking on impassively at other people's pleasure or vexation. Indiana
  • With what pleasure should I hear people cry out, 'Che garbato cavaliere, com' e pulito, disinvolto, spiritoso '! Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1749
  • Italy was a country of inexhaustible charm, sybaritic pleasure, and cultural wealth, of course, but it was not to be taken quite seriously in an economic or political sense.
  • Its occupation was to speculate on Laetitia Dale's modest enthusiasm for rural pleasures.
  • His expenditure on pleasure and luxuries is rather high in proportion to his income.
  • Five or six small boys, with pea-shooters, and the cornopean player, got up behind; in front the big boys, mostly smoking, not for pleasure, but because they are now gentlemen at large, and this is the most correct public method of notifying the fact. Tom Brown's Schooldays
  • The right choice will give inspiration to choreographer and performer alike and add to the pleasure of the audience.
  • The older travellers were certainly not blasés; they seemed to find pleasure and beauty wherever they looked: Ca da Mosto (1455), visiting the Senegal, detected in this graveolent substance, fit only for wheel-axles, a threefold property, that of smelling like violets, of tasting like oil of olives, and tinging victuals like saffron, with a colour still finer. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2
  • From the ardent desire which you have long expressed concerning Stona's marriage, it will, I am convinced, give you pleasure to hear that the nuptials are at last solemnized. The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B.
  • He also expressed pleasure to be following in the footsteps of his illustrious predecessor Charles Darwin.
  • You rolling stones are best off investigating the pleasures of domesticity this week.
  • I took special pleasure in rocking in the chair the hospital had provided, singing a song of my own devising to Elijah. Sound Politics: The Unbearable Hipness Of Slackerdad
  • The world as a realm of sensual pleasures is a mire we risk "wallowing" in, such that our spiritual/intellectual soul/vision can't break through. A Dark And Hidden God
  • But now his displeasure is against her; he is angry with her, and appears and acts against her as an enemy. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
  • Also the pleasures of the eye consist in a certain equality of colour: for light, the most glorious of all colours, is made by equal operation of the object; whereas colour is (perturbed, that is to say) unequal light, as hath been said chap. II, sect. The Elements of Law Natural and Politic
  • Expect English National Ballet's technically brilliant dancing to bring an evening of pure pleasure.
  • Wishing you a sparkling Christmas and bright happy New Year!May the season bring much pleasure to you.
  • But the noose and lifeline metaphors dramatize the in-culture ‘factness’ of much writing, its consequentiality, rather than the seductive pleasures of its speculative realm.
  • And, it being too visibly absurd to hold that pain or pleasure can be in an unperceiving substance, men are more easily weaned from believing the external existence of the Secondary than the Primary Qualities. Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous
  • Besides the above-mentioned roles, I also had the pleasure to see her shine in two other seldom performed roles in the Ruzimatov gala in St. Petersburg.
  • Only when he had drained the cup of every fleshly pleasure could he accept those deeper thirsts which drove him on.
  • Alphonse used to say, a thing needed cancels the pleasure of its obtention.
  • The author suggests that in a fruitful search for truth we must experience a self-forgetfulness that is not self-annihilation, but a form of pleasure.
  • The country teems with "poets, poetasters, poetitos, and poetaccios:" every man has his recognised position in literature as accurately defined as though he had been reviewed in a century of magazines, -- the fine ear of this people [22] causing them to take the greatest pleasure in harmonious sounds and poetical expressions, whereas a false quantity or a prosaic phrase excite their violent indignation. First Footsteps in East Africa
  • American defender of theirs says just the same of their industrialism and free-trade; indeed, this gentleman, taking the bull by the horns, proposes that we should for the [78] future call industrialism culture, and the industrialists the men of culture, and then of course there can be no longer any misapprehension about their true character; and besides the pleasure of being wealthy and comfortable, they will have authentic recognition as vessels of sweetness and light. Culture and Anarchy
  • These when a funeral happeneth, make vnto him that is doer for the deade, an estimate of the exequies in writing, whiche the doer may at his pleasure enlarge or make lesse. The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
  • Clearly, Big Dave's axeman took no pleasure in the occasion. Hugh Muir's diary
  • I have an overall plan to be sensible as needed, and to treat myself well each day with simple pleasures, such as picnicking with a view or listening to favorite music. Lea Lane: "The Worst May Be Behind Us": 15 Ways to Cut Back Anyway
  • This interviewee himself took pleasure in regrowth forest and spent much of his recreational time fishing, catching marron (a freshwater crustacean, Cherax cainii) and bush walking.
  • There is, however, something quite different that is often meant when it is said that pleasures are incom - mensurable. UTILITARIANISM
  • He grimaced at the thought of eating dehydrated food; I described the simple pleasure of drinking ice-cold water from a mountain stream.
  • Take a pain for a pleasure all wise men can. 
  • Unless you have the dubious pleasure of living right next door to an airport one of the biggest downsides of going on holiday is catching a flight at an ungodly hour of the day.
  • In the first Hostel, the movie eventually revealed that its real interest was purely in shock value and the scopophiliac pleasures of dangling eyeballs. Movie Recommendations
  • More reasons to be cheerful include more meals being made from fresh ingredients, a sign of the pleasures of home and hearth. Times, Sunday Times
  • A surge of need, pain and pleasure welded together, craving, and the sweet excruciation of denial, giving way, finally, inevitably, to satisfaction. Crashed
  • Not only did the new grande signore treat them well, he shared their pleasures. THE FAMILY
  • Five years ago lunch at this inner-city school was an ordeal rather than a pleasure. Times, Sunday Times
  • However, Paul Butler is never too busy to stop and enjoy the simple pleasure of gazing into the distance at dusk.
  • This “new set of clackers,” as Dahl joyously described them, still left a “tidy hunk” for the RAF,72 but they were a source of great pleasure to their owner, who believed that in most cases real teeth were more trouble than they were worth. Storyteller
  • I think it will be WONDERFUL not to have a body ... as much as my body gives me (and others) a lot of pleasure, being corporal is a very heavy way to exist. The Great Beyond
  • No man can be brave who considers pain the greatest evil of life; or temperate, who regards pleasure as the highest good. 
  • His family said that, despite dealing in the recovery of hundreds of millions of pounds, he delighted in simple pleasures. Times, Sunday Times
  • Yet in spite of this dreadful tenue he greeted me without embarrassment and indeed with a kind of artless pleasure. Ruggles of Red Gap
  • There was no uncertainty, no wavering, no hesitation, nor was there any mirth, any pleasure, any satisfaction.
  • Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment. Oscar Wilde 
  • Now jump!" cried Niels; and with one joyous "halloo" the children were on the broad, springy plank, enjoying to the utmost this novel pleasure. St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 5, March, 1878
  • The man's face is set in a displeased grimace, his brow furrowed in certain displeasure.
  • I blushed when he sermonized to one of my boyfriends about the vitality and pleasure of true love.
  • As a race, dwarves were probably the finest engineers ever born - certainly their people took the deepest pleasure in working with earth and stone and iron, for it was in their blood.
  • Janyn was strolling jauntily back towards his headland and the open fields, where he could fly the merlin on his creance without tangling her in trees to her confusion and displeasure. The Devil's Novice
  • The guard took great pleasure in explaining that if he did, just how much he would relish booting them off the site.
  • Before his facile perils and ready laugh, life was no longer an affair of serious effort and restraint, but a toy, to be played with and turned topsy-turvy, carelessly to be lived and pleasured in, and carelessly to be flung aside. Chapter 2
  • Various objections might be made to motivational hedonism: that we are often motivated by things that do not in fact maximize our pleasure, such as motivation to step under a shower that one takes to be suitably warm but which is in fact scalding hot; that not every pleasure that our options for action make available to us motivates us; or that the very idea of maximum ˜pleasure over pain™ or Hedonism
  • The white sangria is lovely, but unless you drink it quickly, its ice dilutes the pleasure. Tom Sietsema on Estadio: The reign of Spain continues in Washington with a welcome newcomer
  • They are as though adrift at sea without compass or destination, so they might as well demand that theirs be a pleasure cruise. Christianity Today
  • She took no more pleasure or delight in the world. Sources of the West: Readings in Western Civilization, Volume 1: From the Beginning to 1715
  • Which when I had at large declared and ended my speeche, I began with great desire to frame my selfe to bee a pertaker of their solacious and magnificent pleasures. Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame
  • It's a mechanism by which the Commons can express its extreme displeasure. Times, Sunday Times
  • Consider This: Squash Blossoms Whether sautéed, stuffed, baked or fried, squash blossoms are one of summer's showiest pleasures. A Flower to Savor
  • Honestly, it is well worth bunking off work altogether on these occasions, since the pleasure of watching the artless production economies more than repays the rows I get for missed deadlines.
  • Side-by-side (it takes barely half an hour to get from one to the other) are the sybaritic pleasures of the beach and the heady exertions of the sort of outdoor life enjoyed by the Von Trapp family.
  • The whole point of a sports car is hedonism, the selfish pursuit of pleasure.
  • This is mainly sweetveld which makes grazing a pleasure Thisfarm is a mere 3 hours drive from Johannesburg.
  • The lively little sprite Ariel had nothing mischievous in his nature, except that he took rather too much pleasure in tormenting an ugly monster called Caliban, for he owed him a grudge, because he was the son of his old enemy Sycorax. Types of Children's Literature
  • The process of producing the art work gives both pleasure and satisfaction whether spending a whole day painting one picture or taking a series of photos.
  • The relish of the mind is as various as that of the body, and like that too may be altered; and it is a mistake to think that men cannot change the displeasingness or indifferency that is in actions into pleasure and desire, if they will do but what is in their power. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
  • As the weather grew warmer, the daily swim became a routine of exquisite pleasure. Seminary Boy
  • But in the well-made cake, the plums are wisely scattered all through, and every mouthful is a pleasure. An Old-Fashioned Girl
  • His life is spent in the pursuit of pleasure.
  • He will be a little blate for such a namely man," said Margaret, but I could see there was a glow of pleasure over her. The McBrides A Romance of Arran
  • It would be a pleasure to return to one's desk in Septuagint College and resume one's ordinary work.
  • And it is because he followed these instructions with such urbanity, wit, and sophistication, Hale argues, that Milton provided a particular pleasure to his readers and was so successful in refuting his opponent.
  • Sexual excitement is accompanied throughout by a sensation of pleasure, specifically known as _voluptuous pleasure_, the _voluptuous sensation_, or simply _voluptuousness_ (in Latin, _libido sexualis_). The Sexual Life of the Child
  • Another friend has always informed me that passion is good, indulge in it and get enjoyment and pleasure.
  • Their pleasures derive from fulfilling internal wishes and desires and they find solitude easy to bear. Know Your Own Mind
  • Any seamster or cobbler or tailor or artificer of any trade keeps us shut up in prison for the luxurious and wanton pleasures of the clergy. The Love of Books : The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury
  • His usual good humored expression had dissolved into one of annoyance and displeasure.
  • For a reader who knows the primary sources, it is a rich pleasure to see Roman antiquity so thoroughly and feelingly brought back to life. Harris is very modern, very pagan, even raunchy at times, just as the Romans must have been.
  • What sort of pleasure do you get out of ... mommacrazy30 said: Ellotsinnocent "thats the dumbest thing i have ever seen or heard and Ive seen alot on these pages i sooo agree. whisperswing said: Wow she must be the" debil "mamma, dont cha just hate those people that associate babies with money winfalls? The Dreamin' Demon
  • Promiscuously and indefatigable to pursue all sorts of pleasures I own to be brutish, and to avoid all with a suitable aversion equally blockish, let the mind then freely enjoy such pleasures as are agreeable to its nature and temper. Essays and Miscellanies
  • Cooking is one of the pleasures of my life. Times, Sunday Times
  • A key element has been identified as a group of pleasure sensors deep in the brain known as the dopamine D2 receptors. Times, Sunday Times
  • Their pleasure was not happiness, contemporaries charged, but egotism, immorality, indulgence, and vice.
  • It's a bomb that's rigged to hit every pleasure center on my brain's taste analyzation terminal (by which I mean my tongue). In-N-Out's Animal Style Burger: Recreating The Original, Perfectly
  • They treat you as an honoured guest, as if the privilege and pleasure is theirs, not yours.
  • Pleasure and pain are the wealth of life, to escape its negative, as some of the face of courage, in fact, be able to recall a blessing.
  • But they quickly succumb to the pleasures of curry and bangers and mash. Times, Sunday Times
  • I have pleasure in enclosing our considered response which we hope will be taken into account when finalising the guidance for publication.
  • Then the inevitable and auspicious slice of baklava, flaky and honeyed, which brings to mind ancient pleasures, Biblical decadence.
  • The pleasure of the language of a good short story is almost musical. Times, Sunday Times
  • In a blaze of dazzling light and gayety, White City, the new pleasure resort on the South side, which was given over to the public today, opened its doors last night and showed some few thousands of its friends the completeness of its larder of entertainment and innocent, as well as interesting, diversion.
  • Other attendees expressed displeasure with Turner's decision to colorize the cinematic classic.
  • I incurred his displeasure by refusing the invitation.
  • There is real pleasure in training a flowering quince tight to a wall. Times, Sunday Times
  • It is our pleasure to submit the balance sheet.
  • For someone like myself who finds meditative pleasures in sweeping, I'll spend a few more shekels to whisk away all that scuzz and dreck with my plant-based broom.
  • I personally do not get any pleasure from seeing people locked up for a long time, but these people were cruel and vindictive. Times, Sunday Times
  • Shakespeare has established that Mercutio is a rather dirty-minded young rogue, cynical about love and sex, and inclined to find ways to ridicule and embarrass everyone he deals with, including his best friends, when he thinks they're being foolish or self-destructive or pursuing pleasures that don't include Mercutio. Did Viola, Rosalind, and Portia wax?
  • True happiness doesn't come from prosperity, pleasure, and power, but from peace. RVM 
  • Mockingbird fans will find pleasure in character spotting. Times, Sunday Times
  • Through the simple tools of classical conditioning then, the shoe becomes a conditioned stimulus giving rise to the conditioned response of sexual pleasure.
  • It was not that his spirits were visibly high -- he would never, in the concert of pleasure, touch the big drum by so much as a knuckle: he had a mortal dislike to the high, ragged note, to what he called random ravings. The Portrait of a Lady
  • Since he's everybody's official bigmouth, he can have the pleasure of playing switchboard for you club people from here on out. STONE CITY

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