The text accompanying the full-page black-and-white photograph reads: Much of the absorbing pleasure of first watching Peter Brook's black-and-white "Lord of the Flies," back in 1963, came from the convincingly innocent and then violently pagan appearance of its troupe of young castaways.
Instead, they were subjected to a stream of insults and complaints and not everyone absorbed it with pleasure.
It may be interesting to monitor the future influence on Clooney of Soderbergh, whose work has at times been impatient with exposition, aloofly absorbed in private pleasures.
Moments before, Ms. Barrett had been absorbed in the pleasures of a new haircut, a new coat, a new job and a new life in New York City that was beginning to make sense.
Lest we think we're any different from these poor souls, italicized sections in what seems to be a disembodied collective voice speak for "us" and our fears, which range from our children (absorbed in "casually lurid pleasures") to our neighbors ("buying gold and ammunition and great quantities of freeze-dried food") to the earth itself ("visiting its slow revenge").
"No," he said, elongating the word, absorbing the cheap pleasure of irony.
Which is why it's high time we got practical and selfish about volunteering they way we have about every other aspect of our selfie-obsessed existence, where convenience and pleasure absorb the lion's share of the ontological criteria.
And were terrorist X to be deprived of the dizzying pleasure of associating his name with that of terrorist Y in the new dark phalanx, he would still have that other, just as great, pleasure: imagining himself absorbed into the chanted name of an immutable God.
A couple meet in college or grad school, get married, work for a year or two, wife gets pregnant, stops working for a brief period, husband's career builds, wife doesn't return to work because husband is capable of supporting them both, wife becomes absorbed with the very considerable pleasures of full time motherhood, wife has a second and maybe a third child.
Be aware of the small things that bring you pleasure and then take a moment to really absorb and enjoy that pleasure.
