He turns electronica back toward introspection and solitude — after all, it's usually one-man music — and trades the communal pleasures of clubland for loneliness and longing.
There is, however, an abundance of evidence that communal pleasures have served, in a variety of cultures, as a way of alleviating and even curing depression.
This dependence is one of the reasons individuals and societies as a whole are aware that smoking is harmful yet continue to smoke because of the individual and communal pleasures it brings.
The Campbell connection seemed to liberate him in a new, creative direction, and he enjoyed the peripheral communal pleasures of soft drugs and drinking that were par for that course.
Urbanisation and the rise of a competitive, market-based economy favoured a more anxious and isolated sort of person - potentially both prone to depression and distrustful of communal pleasures.
Nott's explanation for its downfall is that a new era of prosperity and job security had turned the working class "away from such communal pleasures and towards homebuying, homemaking, family life and 'individualism'".
The many facets of romance range from John Sloan's studies of domestic life to the communal pleasures of dirty dancing, as in Mabel Dwight's "Harlem Rent Party" and Peggy Bacon's "Dance at the League," and flirtatious behavior in saloons, on the street and in the subway.
Vargas extols Okinawan cuisine for its age-extending effect, but Habuya is no den of low-calorie living — it's a restaurant of simple, communal pleasures.
Trying to make extreme changes in the food we eat conflicts with those communal eating pleasures.
There's a friendly distance between campers, a quiet camaraderie born of bear fear and the short-term pleasure of communal living.
