The women and girls of the village visit to ask Sarah's advice and prayers, and she sets all these characters in the context of her own memories of village life: the power of the feudal lord; the nastiness, shortness and brutishness of peasant women's lives; the lost pleasures of fine clothes and good food.
If life loses pleasure and meaning, with or without a terminal disease, can suicide be a legitimate response?
Sometimes we talk about behavior in general terms (e.g. some people stay calm in competitive situations; some people lose pleasure in activities that they once enjoyed).
Major depression is a common, disabling disorder characterized by a period of at least two weeks in which a person loses pleasure in nearly all activities and/or exhibits a depressed mood.
It is just that I have now lost much pleasure in my ballot. . . .
He reprised the role all over the world and never lost his pleasure in it.
Hence the claim to universal validity would be lost if pleasure in beauty were not disinterested in the sense of not being based on desire.
While the West Lothian club's coffers benefitted, their fans have lost the pleasure of witnessing at close hand the further development of midfielder Stefan Scougall, who was sold to Sheffield United, and defender Coll Donaldson, who was bought by Queens Park Rangers.
We don't suffer from physical pain, but we seem to have lost the pleasure of living.
Miss Vagina Whiner first came to me saying she had lost all pleasure from sexual intercourse because she was so embarrassed by her saggy lips, which drooped about her clitoris like the slobbery chops of an over-bred dog.
