Sentence examples for limited pleasure from inspiring English sources

It was a mixture of work and limited pleasure.

At the same time, there was limited pleasure in it for him, revising sentences in his dreams, a few flashes of short-lived satisfaction, that's all.

Its oversimplifications are all the more unfortunate because the movie is a clever thriller, a starkly suspenseful — albeit sharply limited — pleasure.

Mr. Hyde Pierce, playing Frank Cioffi, a Boston police detective investigating a murder within a doom-shadowed musical-comedy company in 1959, is describing the limited pleasures of being an unmarried cop.

Another concerned the limited pleasures of reading legal briefs rather than serious books ("I find the workload of what I do sufficiently great that when the term of court starts I undergo a sort of annual intellectual lobotomy").

The availability of smoking as a social-connection to their peers and limited resources for pleasure.

The 'rebirth' of ancient letters and wisdom marked a revolutionary change of the European mind, but it remained limited to the contemplative pleasure and edification of quietist poets and scholars until it merged with the assertive defense of sovereign independence of the increasingly rich, powerful, and confident merchant cities of Italy.

If Plato in the Philebus is more favorably disposed towards a hedonist stance than in some of his earlier works, he is so only to a quite limited degree: he regards pleasure as a necessary ingredient in human life, because both the physical and the psychic equilibria that constitute human nature are unstable.

Greek cuisine is a modest thing, a fairly limited catalog of simple pleasures, and Avra gives it honest, honorable representation.

Other challenges include mobilising funding and support despite limited existing rigorous research on pleasure and safer sex; discomfort among public health practitioners and researchers with concepts of pleasure and sex; and rejection of erotic media as a potential tool for prevention on the grounds that it is always harmful.

Like so many "alternative" bands, it could remain a refined pleasure for a limited but studious niche of rock lovers.