Sentence examples for element of pleasure from inspiring English sources

They say sex is only for procreation and it's a sin if the element of pleasure enters.

Sport is the element of pleasure in all this and the injuries are the element of pain, which like many elements in life, go hand in hand.

And, along with the perennial challenge of new work, there was an element of pleasure (this may be too bubbly a word) in exploring fresh territories.

Although the treatment for each patient is different, Wii golf brings an element of pleasure into physical therapy, which is often abbreviated as P.T. and sometimes referred to by patients as "pain and torture".

It sometimes happens that men make amusement the end, for the end probably contains some element of pleasure, though not any ordinary or lower pleasure; but they mistake the lower for the higher, and in seeking for the one find the other, since every pleasure has a likeness to the end of action.

I heard another arrival telling his wife that he had been visiting the North Meadow for this springtime display since he was a boy, and she was clearly thinking that she would have to show some element of pleasure and surprise at the sight of the wild fritillary in its brief floral glory.

But never in the way that Susann did, with the contradictory elements of pleasure in mining that mother lode of cubic zirconium and an undercurrent of sheer rage.

Itch has similarities with pain, but in contrast to pain itch induces scratch cycles, which combine elements of pleasure with pain. 2 Severe itch can severely affect quality of life (eg, sleep deprivation) and can have serious psychological implications (including temptation to suicide).

For one thing, the reader identifies easily with an "I" narrator or a "he/she" protagonist, and though some critics sneer at sympathetic identification and some novelists delight in frustrating it, it remains a fundamental element of the pleasure of story.

The IRS says such expenses are deductible only if there is "no significant element of personal pleasure, recreation or vacation in the travel".

There's an element of "guilty pleasure" involved in consuming this work, he says.