Sentence examples for over the pleasures from inspiring English sources
The alternative to Trumpism is the democratic faith: that people, in the long run, will choose decency and progress over the pleasures of malice.
No film writer has ever enjoyed the influence of Pauline Kael at the New Yorker, and yet after a lifetime spent advancing the pleasures of fun over the pleasures of art, she famously repented.
Falstaff, in effect, is a giant Rorschach on which we project the conflicts within our bodies -- and in our body politic -- over the pleasures of the flesh and the consequences of human frailty.
As Molyneux sees it, we are not responsible for many of these mistakes, and yet it seems clear that we deserve (divine) punishment for making the wrong choices in our lives (e.g., when we choose the present pleasures of debauchery and villainy over the pleasures of heaven).
As in all of Holloway's idiosyncratic sculptures, there's always something left over: the pleasure of making connections between things that don't fit together.
In his fiction, the ratio of smart to stupid is far more advantageous than it is in real life, but this is a minor complaint, gladly passed over for the pleasure of reading pages of implausibly brilliant speech.
As a character, she delivers pain to the young couple; as a performer, brimming with concentrated virtuosity in her speech and in her physicality, she causes in her audience, less schooled in control than she, an unbounded, over-the-top pleasure.
He seems to have been a genuinely happy person who fully appreciated those rare moments when he was able to give himself over to "the pleasures of reading and thinking".
Indifferent to the affairs of government, Commodus gave himself over to the pleasures of the court, which led to a series of intrigues and miscarried conspiracies.
But after that, momentum will take over and the pleasure of feeling more fit will quiet the internal chatter.
Facebook is putting everyone's face online multiple times over, distracting us from the pleasures of books.
