Sentence examples for contemplative pleasure from inspiring English sources

Le says that when he's "in the lobby," the waiting area where avatars assemble before the game starts, he might linger over some of his emotes, watching his avatar dab or drop into the splits, simply enjoying a performative display that collapses time into contemplative pleasure.

And this very contemplative pleasure, governed by imitation, argues Aristotle, is a deep spring of art.

Entertainment, the lower-intensity level of contemplative pleasure, is obtained by most of the interviewees through, for example, listening to music and watching films.

The 'rebirth' of ancient letters and wisdom marked a revolutionary change of the European mind, but it remained limited to the contemplative pleasure and edification of quietist poets and scholars until it merged with the assertive defense of sovereign independence of the increasingly rich, powerful, and confident merchant cities of Italy.

But Dillard does not want a refuge from her own head; she tends to value contemplative pleasures over bodily ones.

The special's opening scenes, which include the melancholy Charlie Brown lamenting his uniquely grown-up sort of unhappiness, is framed by Guaraldi's "Christmas Time Is Here," a song that for all its contemplative pleasures is one of the least effervescent holiday standards ever written, and it's all the better for it.

Terence Hannum the Baltimore based musician and visual artist may be best known as one-third of the experimental metal contortionists in Locrian, but his work outside that band over the last few years has offered a steady stream more quiet, contemplative pleasures.

Table 1 Gratification: a typology Types of gratification   Sensual Instrumental Contemplative Social Low intensity Pleasure Satisfaction Entertainment Participation High intensity Joy Achievement Appreciation Mutuality Source: Warde, A. and L. Martens (2000).

HIS chief pleasures were contemplative and patient.

While it is tempting to regard opioid bliss as the undriven, pure pleasure that contemplatives and philosophers have long been seeking, even if so we may still, in practice, as Mill suggested (1871, Ch.

So I was pleased to pass from these troubled questions, to which I have no answers, and instead take immersive pleasure in the more contemplative essays, where Cole celebrates the best of what makes us human.