Sentence examples for familiar pleasure from inspiring English sources

Others had embraced a familiar pleasure.

At this, even the familiar pleasure of hating horrible things didn't seem to buoy the Freedom Hall crowd.

It had to do with the familiar pleasure one feels when the internal networks of the mind and the outer patterns of reality suddenly match.

As I got into my stride and the iconic locations trundled by - Buckingham Palace, Whitehall, Admiralty Arch, The Mall, Green Park, St James's Park, Kensington Gardens - I felt the familiar pleasure and joy of tackling a long run.

Listening to Eli tell his favorite stories, mixed in with a few sturdy old jokes, is both a familiar pleasure and a somewhat uncanny experience, since though I have heard most of them before, I can never be sure if it was from Eli or Sam.

More familiar pleasure dawns in her chipper — smug, but sweetly so — self-presentation: this teenager explains that she's at the center of an absolutely incredible social scene, in an astoundingly beautiful place, surrounded by dashing heroes, treacherous seductresses and loyal ladies-in-waiting.

(And also to sentences that offer more familiar pleasures.

Though "3 Epitaphs" and "Company B" are familiar pleasures amid the Taylor company's New York seasons, it's good to see them in a new context.

Spike TV is essentially Lifetime for Men: a cable channel that trafficks in all the most basic and familiar pleasures of its target audience.

Like the title character in Victor Nuñez's "Ruby in Paradise," an understated American independent classic with Ashley Judd that surely inspired this movie, Ms. DuVernay's Ruby lives in a recognizable world of familiar pleasures, disappointing setbacks and everyday struggles.

Ansel poses the question he is often asked: "Why did it become this?" His own theory is that it's the ideal mixture of two separate yet familiar pleasures, newly joined into one good bite.