Sentence examples for of physical pleasure from inspiring English sources
But there is a deep sense of physical pleasure to Shrift's music, which is made mostly by Miranda and the British musician Dennis Wheatley.
His Prince of Sabina is an obviously earthbound philosopher, a man whose awareness of the transience of physical pleasure is the melancholy result of his keen lifelong appetite for it.
Armstrong does his best to avoid mentioning Nietzsche's descent into mania, which he euphemises as "intense delusions"; Matthew Bevis ignores Byron's neurotic self-destructiveness and describes him as a poet of physical pleasure, who enjoins us to dance or to splash around in the water.
Undaunted, she announced to her doctor, "Don't think this has taught me a lesson!" The hysterectomy left her not only psychologically shaky but erotically diminished — again and again, she testified to her lack of physical pleasure, telling Tennessee Williams's friend Sandy Campbell, for instance, that she couldn't reach an orgasm with any man she was in love with.
Another change in the concept of askēsis occurred in ancient Greece when the notion of such training was applied to the realm of ethics in the ideal of the sage who is able to act freely to choose or refuse a desired object or an act of physical pleasure.
Murat Aydede's (2000) analysis of physical pleasure as a subpersonal reactive 'attitude' also may be regarded as a move in a similar direction.
In place of Warrior Virtues, it extols critical thinking, cleverness, adaptability, and an appreciation of physical pleasures like eating, drinking, and sex.
The life of pleasure is construed in Book I as a life devoted to physical pleasure, and is quickly dismissed because of its vulgarity.
Among those who had had anal sexual experiences, few of the men and only one woman among this young age group referred to physical pleasure in their accounts.
There were four kinds of passion the Stoics recognized: fear, lust, mental pain, and mental pleasure (as opposed to physical pleasure).
The writer who famously declared, in "Against Interpretation," "In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art," seems incapable of leaving physical pleasure alone for more than five seconds.
