Sentence examples for current pleasure from inspiring English sources

Psychic: procrastinators value current pleasure over future pleasure, but they're never happy about it.

The author explains that we all need to pursue metaphorical hamburgers that balance current pleasure with future happiness, which is to say: Meaning.

But for theater lovers there can be no greater current pleasure than to witness Bernadette Peters perform the show's signature number, "Send In the Clowns," with an emotional transparency and musical delicacy that turns this celebrated song into an occasion of transporting artistry.

In the beginning, you may feel stupid while learning a new skill or frustrated while sacrificing current pleasure for a future payoff, but when you make the choice to go through the pain early, you get to enjoy the benefit of delight later on.

No 40: Alison Uttley's A Traveller in Time (1939) I do frequently feel that the modern world is conspiring to ruin not just my current pleasures (drinking, chocolate, eating pesticides) but also remembered ones too.

The contrarians, who are not a group, but economists and managers who recognize long-term German problems that go beyond the merits and current pleasures of the strong recovery, agree on a central issue: they see no deep structural reforms as components of Germany's 2010 upswing.

When people forgo current pleasures and invest instead, hoping to gain by providing goods and services people might want in future, we call it capitalism.

Since we form our character by cultivating habits of valuing some things over others, and we prize and appraise character itself, we cannot simply take current pleasures as given (E 193 4; LJP 41 2).

Moreover, most of us seem to have a special concern for our own future, and are willing to limit current pleasures like smoking, shopping, and not writing encyclopedia articles, because we believe that sacrifices made now will benefit us in the future.

Instead of riding the air currents for pleasure or exploring grassy areas for morsels of food, birds used in racing are relegated to small wire-mesh worlds that may afford them little protection from the elements.

Stretches of the trail came back to me on a current of mysterious pleasure.