Sentence examples for mad pleasure from inspiring English sources

In the exhibition catalogue, for example, there is an excerpt taken from Odets's journal (and published in Margaret Bernman-Gibson's excellent biography of the playwright) which reads, "Sometimes, as now, I contemplate the fact that a man and woman together and naked can make such mad pleasure.

ALAN FEUER Be kind and kill me Be kind and kill me, don't let me multiply my memories, you are the only one that can pull the trigger, don't argue with me, just do it, end this and move to your next victim, I wish you good luck with that, make a lot of new friends and kill them all slowly, and painfully, so you can have your mad pleasure, as you did with me.

In his 1844 novel "The Attaché, or Sam Slick in England," Haliburton described young students at King's College, a private school in Windsor, playing in 1800; "racin', yelpin', hollerin' and whoopin' like mad with pleasure, at the playground, with games at base in the fields or hurley on the long pond on the ice".

"The goal is to enhance sexual performance," says Arianna. "The Cuban myth claims that women who feel the pearl will go mad with pleasure".

ANOTHER MAJOR pleasure of "Mad Men" is its writing, which is consistently adult and witty.

Of course, Mad Men also takes pleasure in stimulating feelings of anachronism (all that smoking; the time the Drapers have a roadside picnic and leave all their rubbish).

I'm a chef by trade, but cooking during the week can often feel more a chore than a pleasure: that mad scramble to get supper on the table without collapsing in a shattered heap.

The pleasure of "Mad Men" is not in discovery anymore; it's in the affirmation that there is still some invention left in a series that took audiences by surprise and then kept them hooked even when the novelty wore off.

I remember gathering around the TV with friends for the entirety of the Billie Jean King-Bobby Riggs tennis exhibition, catching frogs with neighborhood kids in the silt of the pond across the street and in my private hours devoting myself to the guilty pleasures of Mad magazine and TV Guide.

Bayliss and his partner, Pembleton (Andre Braugher, who won a long-overdue Emmy in 1998) spar and circle, keeping Tucker Moses Gunnn) off-kilter with endlessly shifting topics -- from the pleasures of Mad Dog liquor, to the condition of his barn, to the nature of God.

The offices sound like a damn yacht, peopled with pleasure-mad beneficiaries of trust funds.