Sentence examples for over pleasure from inspiring English sources

He continues: "I proclaimed the primacy of 'obligation' over pleasure, sobriety over reverie, society over the solitary reader and poet.

It might boast seasonal British produce, but being a brasserie, this place is deeply French: bent on elegance, with attention to detail and determined to take time over pleasure.

Pleasure, in Sade's orgies, is submitted to rigorous order, such that the rationalized pursuit of pleasure takes precedence over pleasure itself (pp. 66 69).

The idea that a fully virtuous agent lacks integrity does not seem plausible, however, and this suggests that integrity cannot merely reside in the triumph of principle over pleasure.

While this neglect was in part owing to the legend that Ryle and behaviorist psychology had shown pleasure lacking in psychological importance, more focused concerns over pleasure's explanatory role were also influential, both directly and through their undermining of hedonism in ethics.

6. Focus on purpose over pleasure.

In the Wong home, making food is not a chore; it is a fought-over pleasure.

I loved everything about the game: the rhythmic pock-pock, pock-pock of the ball hitting the table and racquet again and again, the hummy all-over pleasure I got when I hit a ball well, the back-and-forth conversational aspect of it.

We cannot do so, because our own happiness is the very end contained in the maxim of giving ourselves over to pleasure rather than self-development.

(Yes, I do spend a lot of time talking about food.... Got a problem with that?) When I mentioned the meal to a co-worker, her eyes almost glazed over in pleasure as she said, "Schnitzel?

Well, I'm dogmatic in my choices if I wasn't I would always have chosen beauty over ugliness, pleasure over pain.