Sentence examples for need for pleasure from inspiring English sources

Like so many other immigrants, my parents put all their energy and aspirations into their children, smothering their own need for pleasure and accomplishment so they could help the children live the lives that circumstance had denied them.

His opus, "Infinite Jest," published by Little, Brown & Company in 1996, is set in the near future, in a time called the Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment and is, roughly, about addiction and how the need for pleasure and entertainment can interfere with human connection.

He was too busy satisfying his "need for pleasure" in month-long frenzies of gambling, drinking and womanizing.

At its best, it's a well-acted, surprisingly clear-eyed look at the inconsistent relationship between passion and enduring love, and the innovative ways in which people bend their own rules to accommodate their need for pleasure.

Free from the historical bylaws that provide additional incentive for straight couples to see what's on the other side of their sexual drought, long-term gay couples often opted for a quicker solution to satisfying their need for pleasure while staying together.

And since we see exploitation as sound business practice to feed our insatiable need for pleasure, we will celebrate them and continue giving time and money to decreasing the value of men, women and children to holes they have and how often someone puts themselves into them.

Eating may be pleasurable for them but they are ashamed to "admit" the need for this pleasure from food.

And, finally, there is the narrator's affecting commentary on aging and on the still visceral need for physical pleasure.

Such a need for the pleasure (if it is that) of active engagement is, perhaps, confirmed by a line of research investigating the greater left-sided (than right-sided) prefrontal cortical activity found in positive affect (Davidson 1994, 2000, 2001; Davidson and Irwin 1999; Davidson, Jackson, and Kalin 2000).

Lowe calls it the difference between homeostatic and hedonic eating: eating for need and eating for pleasure.

Patients with panic disorder might benefit especially from collaboration with therapists who can teach them concrete principles of exposure and cognitive modifications that counteract beliefs of vulnerability, whereas those with dysthymia might benefit more broadly from interventions that target their unmet needs for attachment, pleasure and self-esteem.