Sentence examples for essential pleasure from inspiring English sources

Why, then, does the new Lincoln Center production of Hellman's 1939 classic seem hellbent on thwarting the work's most essential pleasure?

Ms. Barak discovered the essential pleasure of ballet, she said, during her years at Westside, which also produced the principal dancer Monique Meunier.

He also revealed that his dog hated going on hikes, an essential pleasure my own dogs and I enjoy each weekend.

And from a critical standpoint the notion of the audience choosing among multiple endings destroys the essential pleasure of a mystery or crime procedural: the intellectual exercise of solving a puzzle that requires our attention from first moment to last.

Certainly the mother's breast is an essential pleasure object, and one that informs pleasure seeking throughout most lifetimes.

Robert Pinsky's latest poetry anthology, "Essential Pleasures," is a collection of "poems to be read aloud," with selections dating from antiquity through the present day.

The musical's artlessness is built right into its DNA, and Amanda Dehnert's frilly new production at the Long Wharf Theater does nothing to undermine its essential pleasures.

"Manhattan customers are very used to being catered to in their whims," said Luke Jackson, 33, another owner, whereas locals are more concerned with essential pleasures: the food and the atmosphere.

By Jenna Krajeski April 27 , 2009Robert Pinsky's latest poetry anthology, "Essential Pleasures," is a collection of "poems to be read aloud," with selections dating from antiquity through the present day.

Ancestral voice Of pride or need: keening meaning - will we die of all this? - ROBERT PINSKY, author, most recently, of "Gulf Music" and editor of the anthology "Essential Pleasures" THE DRIVER Twice we watched him leave us: Once when the car loaded with us died and rolled to the side of a highway into Nashville in boiling August; later with cancer.

Then edited anthologies, like Essential Pleasures, An Invitation to Poetry, Poems to Read, Americans' Favorite Poems (also the new 25th Anniversary edition: Best of the Best American Poetry anthology).