Sentence examples for objects of enjoyment from inspiring English sources

"This isn't a study collection, it's a place to see the best paintings we can show so that visitors will be able to experience paintings as objects of enjoyment and culture.

It seems to me that, since literary texts and cultural phenomena are public goods -- both in the sense of being available to everyone, and in the sense of being "good" for our cultural breadth and depth -- there is room for them to be treated as objects of enjoyment and as subjects of academic study.

It has succeeded "in turning abject poverty itself, by handling it in a modish, technically perfect way, into an object of enjoyment".

'His modern pact with the devil gives him access to every human experience, but only as an object of enjoyment from which he must detach himself in the moment of consuming it.' This is enjoyment as renunciation.

He described the recipient of aesthetic experience not as distanced but as disinterested, meaning that the recipient does not treat the object of enjoyment either as a vehicle for curiosity or as a means to an end.

Playing By the Book's whimsical teaching tool shows little ones how to convert ordinary objects into hours of enjoyment by gathering plastic bottles, hose pipes and various buckets.

Augustine distinguished between love of an object for enjoyment (for its own sake) and love of an object for use, which makes the difference between virtuous and vicious loves.

The object of the life of enjoyment is bodily pleasure; that of political activity is honor or even virtue.

In an exploratory study of hedonic shoppers' shopping experiences, Bäckström (2011) discerned three themes of leisure shopping experience: ambition to find desirable objects; aesthetic enjoyment and stimulation of senses from just experiencing stores, products, and people at a shopping mall; and joy of the social interaction with friends or family members during leisure shopping.

Since the only thing that is good for its own sake is God, only God is the proper object of love as enjoyment.

That success helped her develop the sense of play in her designs, which infused in objects an enjoyment that was passed on in their use.