Reading is certainly a pleasure, and life after school often leaves too little time for that pleasure (as well as for all sorts of other pleasures); but I think that Goodman's choice of the word "anxiety" is apt.
He is certainly a pleasure to observe in action.
Painful to some, but certainly a pleasure to the company's shareholders.
It presumably is our duty to comply with such a request, and it is certainly our pleasure.
Even those who share Fitzgerald's fatalism vis-à-vis the 1920s can certainly take pleasure in a simple reality.
Besides, Laurel Lake, at 3165 Main Road, Laurel, made only 305 cases, and, almost certainly, the pleasure principle will cause them to vanish soon.
It has nothing to do with Jarvis Cocker, Beth Ditto, or homelessness (memo to kids: that's not what "Gimme Shelter" means), but it is certainly a pleasure to watch.
This made our role as judges rather difficult, but it was certainly a pleasure to see the wonderful work that can be achieved by young people when given the opportunity to showcase their talent".
He almost certainly took pleasure, too — for this thought was doubtless not lost on him — in the idea that on any given day, slung unobtrusively over his shoulder, there might lurk a letter from one Great Power to another, filled with all the threats, blandishments and cunning hollow promises Diplomacy entails, awaiting delivery by its creator.
"Obviously I didn't write novels for the attention," the 64-year-old writer said shyly, sipping apple juice in his home, enlarged over the years to accommodate his wife, Susannah, a painter, and their two now-grown children, "but it is certainly a pleasure to receive".
