Sentence examples for pleasurable vacation from inspiring English sources

One story in "Sum," for example, considers the possibility that life on earth may be just a brief, pleasurable vacation from our true existence as gigantic beings doing the heavy lifting of holding up the cosmos.

One of the most pleasurable summer vacations I ever had was spent in an early-19th-century farmhouse in Westport, Mass., one week in August some years ago, when the rain was so blessedly relentless that I had no choice but to watch the first three seasons of "The Wire," virtually without interruption.

From his opening extreme long shots of a highway cutting through green, sandy hills, Mr. Lordello carves out two spaces, geographic and cinematic, that announce that his movie takes place both somewhere rural and suggestively pleasurable (sand, beach, vacation) and in that familiar territory staked out by masters of such shots, like the Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami.

For example, one bad day can completely spoil someone's memory of an otherwise pleasurable two-week vacation.

Our minds can trick us into thinking that these pleasurable actions and states should be reserved for vacations, or times when we don't have anything else we "could" or "should" be doing.

IN the heat of a waning summer, when half the world seems to have taken off on vacation, a late-morning glass of wheat beer can be another sort of pleasurable departure.

A week before we were to set forth for the Grant, the hideous attack on Manhattan, the Pentagon and mankind took place, and for three days Ruth and I felt that taking a vacation at such a time would be frivolous, even indecent, and certainly not pleasurable.

Mr. Romney, who has a vacation home in the state, noted that the atmosphere in New Hampshire must be decidedly more pleasurable than that of Beijing, where Mr. Huntsman was until recently the United States ambassador.

It's so pleasurable.

Pleasurable physical intimacies followed.

These scents were pleasurable.