Sentence examples for compensatory pleasure from inspiring English sources

Did she take some compensatory pleasure in being mysterious?

Clothing had become her "compensatory pleasure" for dutifully enduring the public demands of her husband's political career, Ms. Kantor writes.

We do not have to fall into inane debates about whether Celeste is likable in order to require some kind of compensatory pleasure that enables us to like the novel.

The sheer weirdness of seeing Laurie on the big screen is a good compensatory pleasure, and it's testimony to his skill that he succesfully makes you believe he really is happier with Nina than Paige.

In the meantime, it has compensatory pleasures.

For many New Yorkers, its abbreviated business hours will knock the Morgan Dining Room out of the running as a serious restaurant, but it offers compensatory pleasures.

THE summer I turned 8, in 1973, my family moved from Chicago to North Carolina, an experience that initiated me into the sweltering miseries of summer and into the cool, compensatory pleasures of moviegoing.

When Gosford Park premiered at the London film festival last November, this jejune ending looked disappointing, but on a second viewing its compensatory pleasures are undeniable: lovely ensemble acting and exuberant, orchestral direction from Altman, back on course after the execrable Dr T and the Women.

For the tired and straitened Britain of the late 40s and early 50s, following the activities of a young, pretty, unmarried princess was deemed by the press to be a popular compensatory public pleasure.

Some of the pleasures of hiking are compensatory -- rest after exertion, food after hunger, showers after sweat -- but some are objective.

Yet there is a compensatory condition of what you could only call signiness — a proliferation of signs that are not portals to pleasure but placeholders for experiences.