Sentence examples for once enjoyable from inspiring English sources

Innovation produces cheap, strong, unhealthy fixes closely allied to what were once enjoyable pursuits linked with desirable evolutionary goals (nutrition, socialising and reproduction).

The spectre of Blair has been hanging over proceedings like forgotten Christmas decorations after Twelfth Night, a gaudy reminder of times past, once enjoyable but now dragging on.

Ms. Coppola's subsequent films can be seen as metaphors for adolescence, a condition — at once enjoyable, confounding and traumatic — that they associate with the out-of-body dislocation of jet lag ("Lost in Translation"), the absurd rituals of the Bourbon court ("Marie Antoinette") and the surreal overstimulation and mortification of modern celebrity culture ("Somewhere").

Why are we sad about losing these once enjoyable commodities?

The vulnerability, openness, mystery and newness begin to die off and what's left is two people, sleeping on opposite sides of a giant bed, fantasizing about sleeping with other people and finding one reason or another not to go on vacation together, go on dates or anything else that was once so enjoyable.

The researchers can't quantify exactly why it worked, but Pereira says that one reason might be that pets might counteract one of the main symptoms of depression: anhedonia, or an inability to experience pleasure from everyday activities someone once found enjoyable.

Valentine's day became more enjoyable once the game started.

They're both fun, but the latter is much more enjoyable once you're a few eggnogs in.

On the subject of sports with judges, Phil Mannion has this to say: "I once passed an enjoyable afternoon in the pub with a friend thinking of ways judging could be eliminated from sport.

Its richness and pungency made revisiting classic cowboy series a little less enjoyable: once you've witnessed one of Al Swearengen's blowjob soliloquies, Bonanza, Gunsmoke and Alias Smith and Jones don't quite cut it any more.

It was enjoyable once you got used to it (in the simulator).