Work is mechanised, and all that's left for humanity is a ceaseless round of pleasure, travel and further education.
Structurally, it is, but its ceaseless renewals are populated with pleasures that extend beyond the what-next variety.
And that ceaseless forward motion was the greatest pleasure of the evening.
For one thing, a lot of Hockney's interest and our pleasure comes from his ceaseless inventiveness when faced with the immemorial problem of how to represent something.
As for the public, they took pleasure in the apparently ceaseless rise in the value of their abodes, further confirmation of the wisdom of their investment, budget-stretching as it may have been.
The novel form can be difficult, cumbrously serious; storytelling is all pleasure, fantastical in its fertility, its ceaseless inventiveness.
It's necessary to mention everyone and to stress the keen pleasures involved in watching such finely honed, smart artists navigate this ceaseless stream of movement, which includes gales of bounding leaps, off-kilter partnering, Broadway vamping, campy tableaus and — yes, dear reader — synchronized swimming choreography.
He notes that the French are moved by a love of honor to obey their king, and quotes approvingly the claim that this "makes a Frenchman, willingly and with pleasure, do things that your Sultan can only get out of his subjects by ceaseless exhortation with rewards and punishments" (Letter 89).
In Petterson's fiction, personal retrospect — the ceaseless backward gaze to childhood, to the dominant impress made by one's parents, to all the remembered pleasure and pain of family history — is both a lure and a hazard.
The variety was ceaseless.
