They assist a gradual drying-up of the more positive, the fuller, the more cooperative kinds of enjoyment, in which one gains much by giving much.
It imagines that the ideal world for a loving and compassionate God to create must be what John Hick describes as a hedonistic paradise: a place devoted to human enjoyment, in which comfort and convenience are maximized, and pain and deprivation have little or no place (1966, 292 93).
Beatrice's piano playing suffered as her rheumatism got gradually worse, eliminating an enjoyment in which she excelled; however, this did not change her willingness to cater to her mother's needs.
"He did also have tremendous enjoyment in things, which gets overlooked.
But whether or not Twitter is your cup of tea, it can't be denied that millions have decided it enhances their enjoyment of sports in which, surely not coincidentally, the powers-that-be have increasingly limited access to major players.
Other theorists of freedom have remained closer to the negative conception of freedom but have attempted to go beyond it, saying that freedom is not merely the enjoyment of a sphere of non-interference but the enjoyment of certain conditions in which such non-interference is guaranteed (see especially Pettit 1997, 2001, and Skinner 1998, 2002).
Each set of paintings adds to the enjoyment of the exhibition in which it hangs.
If he already looks too verbally quick for Basanio on the page, his enjoyment of an encounter in which he is the master looked cruel, actor to actor.
The complex emotions of the family and friends of the two performers as they watch these closing roles can only be imagined because, even for a viewer, there is a peculiar charge – in which enjoyment is complicated by sadness – in seeing an appearance by someone who has recently disappeared from view.
But Schlegel's purpose is not to conceptualize a particular canon of beauty, but much more, as a means of elevating oneself above all partial views, to find an approach that may enable the comprehension and enjoyment of the different ways in which art is manifested throughout history.
There was a significant correlation between percent favorable score and performance for the enjoyment (personal interest) category only, in which high-performing students had significantly more expert-like attitudes than low-performing students at the beginning of the program (R = 0.05, F = 4.63, p = 0.0345; Figure 2c).
