Sentence examples for natural pleasure from inspiring English sources

In such moments, the dancer embodies a natural pleasure of which authority disapproves.

Conversely it saddened him to witness in himself the gradual death of natural pleasure.

But while she enjoyed the attention, and sometimes responded with a general kind of social flirtation, I had no reason to see this as a more than natural pleasure in her own looks and talents.

She honed a natural pleasure in argument into a passionate commitment to debating, usually carried from the lecture theatre into the bar, where late-night sessions often morphed from discussing history to denouncing the iniquities of Thatcherism.

In the wake of that death, Guiraudie offers what may be the strangest cinematic beam of sunlight since the last scene of Eric Rohmer's "Summer"; it's as if light itself were bent into a primal purity of natural pleasure and natural destruction.

"It saddened him to witness in himself the gradual death of natural pleasure," we read in "Call for the Dead," and he himself is presented as the simplest of fools — married to the lustrous Lady Ann, who dispenses her favors to almost anyone who asks, including Tailor (Colin Firth, in the new film).

Parents sorrowful that children these days grow up so fast and have so little time to enjoy the natural pleasures of carefree childhood.

For many, though, the allure of schussing, water-skiing or training for the ring takes a back seat to natural pleasures.

And in always going for poetry over melodrama, Mr. Jones cheats us of the play's cruder natural pleasures, ending scenes with trailing ellipses that should by rights conclude with exclamation points.

Mitchell, an Englishman living in Japan, has a gift for fiction's natural pleasures -- intricate surprises, insidiously woven narratives, ingenious voices -- but he seems unsure that they can find the way on their own.

Unless you've subjected yourself to an Internet blackout to better commune with the natural pleasures of summer, chances are you've heard something about Mindy Meyer, the 22-year-old New York State Senate contestant, who, when asked about Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo in an interview, said she was "not familiar with him in particular, like his issues, and you know, everything about him".