There is the pleasure of being challenged; the pleasure of feeling one's range and capacities expanding; the pleasure of entering into an unfamiliar world, and being led into empathy with a consciousness very different from one's own; the pleasure of knowing what others have already thought it worth knowing, and entering a larger conversation.
The book also provides a brief introduction to the challenges, pleasures, silliness, and rewards of life as a freelance consultant, as an engineer in a small company, and as one of a large stable of engineers in a big company.
I recently had the pleasure of challenging 400 housing professionals to think differently about localism.
Rather, he's a standard-bearer for his own inimitable genre, whose charter involves satisfying pleasure centers, challenging orthodoxy of any stripe, and pushing society forward/backward to try to free it from its own muck and mire.
Whether it is a Freudian gesture confronting their past or challenging the boundaries of pleasure in confinement, I wanted to know what drove these inmates to extreme forms of sexuality while in prison.
Given this opening, I expected the rest of the piece to lament what we've lost by giving up on the pleasures of challenging, adult-centered culture.
Unexpectedly, the pre-indie associations of the word "independent" – the post-punk ideal of music that's forward-thinking and all-gates-open, that embraces technology and is challenging without wholly abandoning pop pleasure or dance groove – have been reactivated.
Our father, Ramesh Vyas, who has died aged 82, was a gentle, modest man who had an unerring sense of justice; someone who took pleasure in quietly challenging whatever prevailing prejudices and unfairness he encountered.
Other scholars argue that pornographic representations of sex between women have a similar effect, undergirding the naturalness of heterosexuality by positioning this eroticism for men's pleasure rather than challenging its inevitability.
