Sentence examples for given the pleasure from inspiring English sources
In addition, we are given the pleasure of assembling the pieces of a puzzle.
It makes me think of the man given the "pleasure" of assassinating Che Guevara.
Given the pleasure that Mr. Downes takes in such slices of street life, it's striking that his small-format, multipaneled panoramas, created in Maine, New Jersey and southern Texas as well as New York, rarely include humans.
A communication from another audience member, the pianist Shai Wosner, helpfully explained the inexplicable: why a piece that is about struggle and difficulty should have given the pleasure it gave in Yuja's interpretation.
Like the former Stanford swimmer who was banned last week on account of rape charges, victims of rape crimes should be given the pleasure of knowing that they have been somewhat avenged.
That, he said, would have given the perpetrators pleasure.
"The news has certainly given the keenest pleasure to all classes," he wrote to George VI after the engagement of the king's daughter, Princess Elizabeth.
"We can just focus on our own results, our own tech, but you won't get the joy that comes from giving, the real pleasure of helping people.
But given the richly detailed pleasures of the trip, this may be carping.
"To America, that has given me the pleasure since I left my country 23 years ago," Rivera said, in his closing remarks to the fans.
It's that he has given us the pleasure of watching his progress as, in his mind, Balanchine's Russo-American thunderbolt crossed the sheltering sky of English ballet.
