Sentence examples for modicum of pleasure from inspiring English sources

The modicum of pleasure delivered by "Southpaw" arrives thanks to its cast, who struggle bravely and energetically with the hopelessly bland text and the invisible, impersonal direction.

It is set in the United States, maybe because Mr. von Trier gets a modicum of pleasure tweaking Americans, but mostly because this is a movie full of Hollywood stars, and America, for better and for worse, epitomizes the world.

Within a blink of an eye, advertisers began flooding the Internet with ads shoved into every available pixel of space, serving 5.3 trillion ads in a single year, with little regard for user experience, creative quality and, most importantly, achieving any modicum of the pleasure principle (comScore).

"It will be the only game that, if they have deserved to get a result and end up getting one, there will be a very small modicum of … not pleasure, maybe comfort," he says.

What modicum of cosy Sunday-afternoon pleasure they provide stems from the performers: Raphaël Personnaz (from Tavernier's The Princess of Montpensier) and Victoire Bélézy make a handsome couple as the barman Marius and his on-off sweetheart Fanny, while Auteuil and Jean-Pierre Darroussin are typically dependable as Marius's father and love rival respectively.

Soon we will be happy!" During a Christmas Day snowfall, while her daughter and a friend are visiting, she asks, "Is this much happiness allowed?" Rereading these passages, I felt a modicum of admiration for Mayes's willingness to commit such earnest displays of pleasure to the page.

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

But what kind of pleasure?

("The Beginning of Pleasure).

A life of pleasure?

Lack of feelings of pleasure.