Sentence examples for formidable pleasure from inspiring English sources
In such parlous times, I felt a little guilty about indulging at length in reading for mere pleasure — the one lacuna in Merrill's cosmopolitanism was politics, which he seems to have found boring — but only a formidable pleasure was capable of drawing me away from the news, and for the sake of my mental health I decided I had to license it.
Fear and rage are powerful tools for change, but delight and pleasure are equally formidable.
But there was nothing to leave behind in this journey, on which you accompanied the formidable Ms. Acogny at her pleasure.
The good news is that his young company Ballet Argentino combines sleekly formidable technique with Mr. Bocca's infectious pleasure in performing.
"My Nine Lives" expresses, above all, her increasingly formidable detachment and, despite its many pleasures of observation, appears to round off rather than add to a distinguished corpus.
The young Eva was a slight, though formidable, girl with an infectious appetite for pleasure.
His winner, Spain, throttled what many thought was the most formidable favorite of the day, the 2-5 Ribolettandand last year's championship mare, Beautiful Pleasure.
It is at once a pleasure palace built by rulers who imagined that Islamic rule would last forever, and a formidable defensive fortress because they feared it wouldn't.
Even the formidable best of "Logan Lucky" feels as if it's made for show, as if its behind-the-camera pleasures stayed within the responsible, the respectable, the avowable, and the recognizable.
