Sentence examples for act of pleasure from inspiring English sources

This was hitting people in the act of pleasure, not business — people who weren't going to, or coming from.

He thus has (habitually) the knowledge that he should avoid fornication, but he fornicates nonetheless because he actually sees the fornication as an act of pleasure to be pursued.

From his focused gaze, one can only assume Barack applies the same attention and care he afforded our nation to the act of pleasuring a woman. .

"Rael's Girls" is another group of women in the movement which are against the suppression of feminine acts of pleasure, including sexual intercourse with men or women.

Another change in the concept of askēsis occurred in ancient Greece when the notion of such training was applied to the realm of ethics in the ideal of the sage who is able to act freely to choose or refuse a desired object or an act of physical pleasure.

We do know the man synonymous with the act of gaining pleasure by inflicting pain on others based much of the action in his later (banned) works on his time in Lacoste.

Jansen assumes that there is a non-deliberate act of victorious pleasure in between the man's deliberation and his decision to give alms for the sake of God, and that this non-deliberate pleasure is the actual grace that enables him to act in a meritorious way.

Furthermore, as fonts were standardised and texts became clearer, "reading ceased being a painful process of decipherment and became an act of pure pleasure".

There's something about self-deprecating humor that triggers schadenfreude, the act of taking pleasure in someone else's pain, and this forms the foundation of many famous comedians' jokes.

And suddenly having a bit of pleasure, or seeing something beautiful, becomes an act of mindfulness.

This version includes a scene I'm pretty sure I've never seen staged, in which Juliet's "former fiancé" Paris engages in an act of self-pleasure over her corpse ("or something").