As a soundtrack, Mr. Pfeiffer has edited taped interviews with the fighters, eliminating the words and leaving a pleasure-pain staccato of breathing.
The blast of cinematic pleasure soon dissipates, leaving a hollow so big it nearly swallows up the entire viewing experience.
He wants to bring back to the left a sense that pleasure is O.K., that self-indulgence isn't always evil.
Those days of celebration passed into history, leaving an imprint of exuberance and pleasure lasting long into the future.
It's always a pleasure to leave a work wanting to see it again, simply to make sure you have a grasp on all its movable, slippery parts.
Whatever the poison, it takes over the students' lives and leaves a sense of empty pleasure in place of real stimulation.
The writer who famously declared, in "Against Interpretation," "In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art," seems incapable of leaving physical pleasure alone for more than five seconds.
As someone who caused wars, and had thousands slaughtered on the battlefield, without doing harm to anybody – and leaving only pleasure behind.
Golden varnish washed across the surfaces of a bath leaves an aura of past pleasures, smooth enamel memory.
The actors manage to just sidestep the chummy, self-congratulatory air of showbiz insiders, leaving viewers the pleasure of savoring their invention.
But do we ever consider the disservice we do them, as well as ourselves, by leaving arousal and pleasure completely out of the picture?
