Sentence examples for central pleasure from inspiring English sources

For Barnes, reading and music and sex all seem to be connected to the same central pleasure node.

Later, he told me that the central pleasure of the E.U. project was the proximity it afforded him to the organization's top officials.

Goodyear's colleague Henry Grabar disagrees with all this: I don't glide through stoplights to declare my independence from society; it's simply a central pleasure of riding a bike.

One, we don't get the central pleasure of seeing one actor play two different characters.

Perhaps as a result, one of this book's central pleasures is that of watching a kind of translation at work.

Watching this odd pair progress from the suicidal thoughts of the opening pages to a renewed sense of purpose is one of the central pleasures of this beguiling book.

If my own feelings (and my Facebook feed) are any indication, one of the central pleasures of the series is the thrill of self-recognition, whether the characters are behaving badly or admirably.

This neurotransmitter, which is central to pleasure and desire, sends a message to the brain: This is an important experience that is worth remembering.

As a key motivator, pleasure is central to learning; if we did not find food, water and sex rewarding we would not survive and have children.

But this realignment disrupts rivalries that are central to the pleasure sports give to fans — especially Nebraska fans, who are inoculated with an unusually pure strain of fandom.

Central to the pleasure of a great heist film is the spectacle of men (rarely women) at work, men who through their hard labor, their sweat and stratagems — and, if they're in a Jean-Pierre Melville film, their honor — defy the law and society.