Sentence examples for exquisite pleasures from inspiring English sources

With only a rod, some flies, bait and a good pair of shoes to take him on his journey, Walton set an example of simple but exquisite pleasures.

ONE of the exquisite pleasures of writing a novel is creating a home for the characters -- and therefore for yourself, too, as their invisible but bossy guest.

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing: '&apos The men and things of today are wont to lie fairer and truer in tomorrow's meadow,'' Henry Thoreau said.

There are exquisite pleasures to be derived from hearing how a talented actor brings forth characters and stories — indeed, often in a way that points up one's own inner-ear tone deafness to certain books.

Audot's madeleines are indeed wonderfully light, but though not exactly dry, they are definitely tougher than the others I make, and keep less well, too (not that any of them last particularly well; like so many of the most exquisite pleasures, this is a fleeting one).

After all, exquisite pleasure waits for no man.

An exquisite pleasure had invaded my senses, but individual, detached, with no suggestion of its origin.

This is the granddaddy of New York picture books, an exquisite pleasure to hold.

But few books can have devoted such detailed attention to their events, and found such exquisite pleasure there.

He took exquisite pleasure, and others with him, in his mastery of the party's antique machinery and historic quarrels.

Stopping at a shop called the Barrow Boy to buy a Swiss roll on winter evenings gives me exquisite pleasure.