Sentence examples for ordinary pleasures from inspiring English sources

But these ordinary pleasures were soon cut short.

But "Behindlings" is maddeningly bereft of most of the ordinary pleasures of the novel.

But Mr. Hill did manage to find time for ordinary pleasures.

"I learnt pretty late that there is a lot of contentment in ordinary pleasures.

Ordinary pleasures, contentment recollected, blow like snow into the abandoned garden, overcoming the daisies.

Her poetic attitude toward nature was reminiscent of William Cowper's in celebrating the "ordinary" pleasures of the English countryside.

All his life, Kapuscinski longed to travel, and he longed to travel to precisely those places that the ordinary pleasure-seeking tourist would take pains to avoid.

You know, just ordinary, everyday pleasures".

Furthermore, all ordinary sensuous pleasures are also momentary: "All sensible joys are only for the first glance" ("First Grove," p. 134).

The default presumption seems to be that in many cases such as these and of ordinary 'simple pleasures' and of elevated mood as well no large integrated pattern of evaluative attitudes or of aesthetic aptitudes need obtain.

His argument is interesting — he says that Coppola's films endorse only "ordinary middle-class pleasures, and their thrill is in social connection and the kinetics of youth.