Sentence examples for mode of pleasure from inspiring English sources

But perhaps it's time to devote a permanent space — it could be small and provisional, like this one — solely for MoMA visitors to interact with games as an exciting, unpredictable, purposeless mode of pleasure.

Not only is this arrangement bad for women; I don't think it's necessarily good for children either – being hovered over constantly and obliged to serve the emotional needs of an adult who has blocked herself from normal adult modes of pleasure and accomplishment.

Freud identified a series of stages in libido development beginning in infancy, and he suggested that an individual could become fixed in one of these immature stages and not pass on to the mature adult stage of sexuality, in which the chief physical mode of sexual pleasure is genital.

Determining the extent to which any such specific uniform attitude proposal is different from, and any better or worse than, an 'adverbial' (activity-dependent) neoAristotelian view on which particular instances of pleasure are modes of their activities (without the need for any special single kind of attitude) would require further consideration.

My fellow daytrippers gave gasps of pleasure as our mode of transport was revealed - an identical coach to that used in the Beatles' 1967 film!

Having spent a wild few days there recently, I'm inclined to agree, mainly because I was on holiday mode and pleasure was top of the menu.

As we saw when considering philosophies of taste and the formation of the idea of the aesthetic, the literal sense of taste has customarily never been considered a truly "aesthetic" sense, its pleasures and mode of apprehension being too bodily and sensuous to qualify.

It is possible that the challenge of distinguishing a hedonic mode of action from the others, if only for some kinds of pleasure (e.g., anticipatory and instrumental — including pleasures of pursuit), can be sustained.

But what kind of pleasure?

"Autonomy... of pleasure, I guess".

What is the source of pleasure?