Sentence examples for deferred pleasure from inspiring English sources

"It reminded us of the deferred pleasure that we had to wait until Monday night.

I wonder whether some of the shows I gobble up in a week might have benefited from what former ITV boss Peter Fincham called the "pleasure of deferred pleasure".

It was such a hit that everyone was asking us about the big stories that we thought, "To hell with deferred pleasure.

Peter Fincham, ITV's director of television, said: "In a world of box sets where we can watch three or four episodes of our favourite programme in one night, Broadchurch reminded us of the pleasure of deferred pleasures.

Your life was generally joyless – but like a penitent you were deferring pleasure for a higher good.

All these months I've waited, deferring the pleasure; I'm doing it now because I've just talked about it on an edition of Backlisted, a brilliant books podcast to which you really should listen, at the invitation of its equally obsessed co-host, Andy Miller.

By its very nature, saving is deferring present pleasure for future gain, and that's a courageous act.

In most quatrains, space is created between the rhyme that poses the question and the rhyme that gives the answer - it is like a pleasure deferred.

There are regular, furtive attempts to defer various pleasures, a consistent and fascinating theme.

They get frustrated easily when confronted with setbacks, and grow angry at the need to defer immediate pleasures.

Jim picks up the build-it-yourself radio kit he's been working on (something no self-respecting young man of the late 1920s would be without), but this is not a day for projects and pleasures deferred: he's drawn to his window by the sound of live music, coming from a band, promoting cheap bus rides to Coney Island, performing in the street below.