Sentence examples for illusory pleasure from inspiring English sources

Winding up with world-weary "wo-ah-woahs", Felicity is an ode to illusory pleasure and – a familiar Orange Juice trope – sticking steadfastly to one's principles ("Within remain unchanged / The things for which we strive"), concluding with a foot-stamping, sardonic refrain of "happiness, happiness, happiness".

This resembles typical consumption behavior: 'the dream will be carried forward and attached to some new object of desire such that the illusory pleasures may, once more, be re-experienced' (Campbell 1987).

Italy idles in the belief that life is circular and objectives an illusory distraction from pleasure.

Almost universally we now seem content to lead a proxy life, a counter-life, of vicarious, illusory relationships, of secondhand pleasures, of atomisation without individuation.

The language in Book 10 brings Book 9's equation of base pleasures with illusory ones into its attack on art.

Specifically, when active touch is expected to induce a positive, affective state in someone else (CT-specificity of the SSI), the touch-provider experiences an illusory amplification of the sensory pleasure derived from active touch of another individual in relation to the self.

They make clear for instance that the pleasures of the lowest soul are illusory; one reason is that the body delights not in true beings but in "idols [eidôlois] of true pleasure" and painted images, eskiagraphêmenais (586b).

Quick solutions are illusory.

The casualness is illusory.

This distinction is illusory.

Civilizations are illusory.