Sentence examples for In the pleasure of from inspiring English sources

In "The Pleasure of the Text," the French semiotician Roland Barthes posits a reading-related dichotomy between books that cause pleasure and those that cause jouissance — a word he used to mean both bliss and orgasm.

In The Pleasure of My Company, Daniel turns messy experience into numbers and grids - which makes urgent sense to him, even as it costs him his place at college and then his job with Hewlett-Packard.

In "The Pleasure of Reading," Antonia Fraser has brought together essays by "43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books That Inspired Them". Each mini-memoir is further supplemented by an annotated list of that author's 10 favorite books.

Wilby eats and reads, indulging in the pleasure of being in Paris.

The pleasure of reading him resides in the pleasure of his company.

The isolating dread has diminished in the pleasure of a new and shared perspective.

"I have never understood what satisfaction there is if not in the pleasure of conquest".

This is just one reason to luxuriate in the pleasure of the Valentines' return to form.

These people get caught up in the pleasure of the birds' beauty and cannot get out of it; they all get caught in the pleasure of finding a new species somewhere and cannot get out of it.

But at the time he was happy with them, and caught up in the pleasure of artistic creation.

I saw in hers the pleasure of having got away with it.