Sentence examples for lonely pleasure from inspiring English sources
Early in his career, Kennan wrote that he was resigned to "the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been".
A third borrows money from the audience to operate a mechanical rocking horse, on which she finds a lonely, fleeting pleasure.
I think Garrett's just lonely in his guilty pleasure.
They murder; they take money and favors from drug traffickers; they take personal pleasures from lonely widows and innocent virgins.
It's lonely to listen to the pleasure of others, not that I've made a habit of that kind of eavesdropping.
"We are the guiltless pleasures of the lonely human being," says Gigolo Joe.
There is something enormously uncomfortable here, as if we are in collusion with the voice – indeed enjoying an almost voyeuristic pleasure in seeing a lonely, unloved man get his just desserts.
We're free to spend a carefree holiday at one of Southern California's fabulous resorts, pleasure palaces dedicated to entertaining lonely people on the loose (make that liberated travelers freed from kitchen duties).
It seems a lonely kind of ecstasy, to be sure, pleasuring oneself as one's image does the same on a TV screen.
He came as brief solace, to a lonely woman in a world of few pleasures... but yet again... a life short lived, just eleven.
