In a way, she joined an appealing tradition of making something from nothing, converting trash to treasure, extracting pleasure from junk-culture detritus.
They're ready to suffer considerable discomfort to extract some pleasure from the experience.
But the voices around me were unrelaxingly shrill — I could concentrate on what I was reading, just about, but I could extract no pleasure from it.
But he didn't seem able to extract much pleasure from his success as a trainer, and he seemed taken aback by the suggestion that, once he retires from boxing, Mayweather, Jr., could become a trainer, too.
Inspired by its rarity, I extracted extra pleasure from a mundane act that I've performed many times before.
This is one downside of tearing an old cuisine away from a culture that has been working out ways to extract the most pleasure from a meal for centuries.
To Ms. Swados's credit, she does as much to pull young readers into the books as to extract the works' pleasures onstage.
At least we have the sea, I thought, and I drove our toddler down the mile-long track to the beach to try and extract a bit of pleasure from the day.
At elementary school Arthur played average baseball and basketball, and at the age of 10 found he could extract a lot of pleasure from belting a ball against a brick wall with a borrowed tennis racket.
One painting depicts a crowd of creatures who appear to be in hell, but who seem determined to extract as much sexual pleasure as they can from their eternity of free time; Mr. Ledger has turned another one around and hung it upside down, to no apparent ill advantage.
