Sentence examples for plain pleasures from inspiring English sources

The stories that make up Plain Pleasures, written between 1944 and 1951, are typical in their juxtaposing of domineering and weak women, and frequent preoccupation with moments of psychological crisis.

What lives were like for women in the west for the majority of the 20th century is ably and angrily summed up by Elizabeth Young in her introduction to Plain Pleasures, the collected stories of Jane Bowles.

This will make a good science project for you to use at school and just plain pleasure.

King and her students, Heidi Woofenden and Kaitlyn Baptista, presented their findings in New York at a conference titled "Hidden in Plain Sight: Pleasures, Policy and Politics of Muslim Women and Their Bodies," sponsored by the Muslim Women's Institute for Research and Development.

Direct passions arise immediately from "good or evil, from plain or pleasure;" indirect passions require the "conjunction of other qualities," particularly the interposition of an idea (T II.1.1 276).

Britain's government, after some wavering, may now go ahead and copy Australia's requirement for cigarettes to be sold in ugly, scary "plain packs".Such pleasure-pinching regulation strikes at one of the main ways cigarette companies boost profits: converting smokers to pricier brands.

But by the Fourth of July, the pleasure of plain meat may pale, even for me.

After the team waited three decades for a championship, Liverpool's desperation is plain; for City, the pleasure of a fourth title in seven years would be heightened by the identity of its vanquished opponent.

He was addressing a full house at Avery Fisher Hall on Monday night, and the grandfatherly twinkle in his eye made it plain that he took pleasure in adding another unlikely chapter to an unlikely career.

Houser added that both the 360 and PS3 have their own "pleasures and plains," and both systems offer "enormous challenges".

THERE is undeniable pleasure in a plain beef burger — juicy, tender, and well browned over a backyard grill — but there's even more in a jazzed-up one.