Sentence examples for besides pleasure from inspiring English sources

Yet Barthes neglects an additional energy besides pleasure and bliss: love.

The boys talk constantly about sex, and the story runs on their efforts to get laid, but what they want, besides pleasure, is knowledge — as Seth explains, "to be good at sex by the time you get to college".

Most philosophers who have written on the question of what has intrinsic value have not been hedonists; like Plato and Aristotle, they have thought that something besides pleasure and pain has intrinsic value.

Renters have other motivations besides pure pleasure.

And approaching the past from a slant makes us sensitive to the shock of recent films, too, which is ultimately the point: classic works, besides providing pleasure, inform the viewing — and the creation — of audacious and original new films.

In the seventies, one of the great pleasures of "Sesame Street"—besides its freewheeling joy, the Muppets' delightfully weird shagginess, the humor, and the wildly singable songs was the kindness of the adults.

There is always the promise of the next meal, the next new place, and, besides, the pleasures of eating privately in public tend to compensate for most culinary catastrophes that do not involve a trip to the emergency room after the latest hole-in-the-wall around the corner serves me last week's clams.

His only real pleasure besides Cersei is the occasional good short speech — Lord Edmure, baby, catapult — or the stinging rejoinder he gives here.

His chief pleasure, besides scarfing down the lavish offerings in the many food baskets he received, was greeting a long, long parade of visitors, a train worthy of a modern Voltaire (Buchwald called the hospice reception room his "salon").

Scientists initially associated dopamine with feelings of enjoyment (a high level of dopamine being visible during activities such as eating chocolate, having sex and hearing favorite music), but research in the past decade has indicated that dopamine has additional functions besides activating gratification and pleasure.

"It is a good feeling and "fair" to earn money producing something that, besides quality, brings health and pleasure to people".