What it meant in Southwark was a patch of level concrete with a few pleasure boats parked on it, surrounded by a high fence.
CTB Ritually reviled when not actually ignored, the nation's concrete diagrams of motorised pleasure and convenience are memorials to a lost age of optimism and opportunity.
Bosanquet's ethical and social philosophy, particularly the practical work Some Suggestions in Ethics (1918), shows a similar desire to view reality coherently, as a concrete unity in which pleasure and duty, egoism and altruism are reconciled.
(The well, too, was strangely intoxicating. When I was seven, I gave it a sock. When I was 11, it gave me a concrete boomerang).Today, greater pleasures are to be had mooching in the avuncular shadow of the arched railway bridge, "taking tea" (or a coronation chicken sandwich) at the Lavender Rooms on Market Place.
56) expressed similar thoughts in a bracingly concrete manner by imagining the pleasures of "perpetual indulgence in bestiality" and claiming them to be not good but bad.
Then he ran up the concrete tunnel and back into the pleasure of thinking for himself.
Footage of the same pig a few weeks later shows it eerily pink and whole, clattering across the concrete-floor maze and snuffling with pleasure as it flips open a blue plastic box full of food.
The town might be mired down by boisterous hen and stag parties, dilapidated shops selling old toys bleached white by the sun, and endless sweeps of concrete, but it has its simple pleasures, too.
More than one builder shied away from this difficult task, and the architectural pleasure evoked by the massive concrete forms is unduly small when one considers the immense effort and expense involved.
Of all the pop megastars of the 2000s, she is without peer when it comes to her image, which is steely and unforgiving and bulletproof, a pleasure-guided man-killer with concrete for skin.
