Critics have referenced everything from Van Halen's "Jump" to Irene Cara's 1984 hit "Flashdance...What A Feeling", so I wonder if there is a guilty pleasures element to Goldfrapp's new sound, "Guilty Pleasures" being the umbrella concept that informs DJ Sean Rowley's celebrated rehabilitation of slightly shameful pop songs via dedicated club nights and compilation albums.
Superficiality does have its place in the theater world, of course, and there's a certain guilty-pleasure element about this glossy vehicle, which tries so hard to entertain.
Kennedy is not a literary-sexual revolutionary like Burroughs or Kathy Acker - these are stories in which the perceived transgressions, the pain-and-pleasure elements, are often closer to the prurient excitements of doing a wrong thing than the liberations a writer like Acker commonly rehearsed.
They have loved reading.' Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation.
There is, of course, pleasure in spotting elements of the later big plays: drunken doctors, disappointed young women, precarious estates and foggy feelings: "Is it boredom?
Despite his pleasure at certain elements of the win Harvey was unhappy that his team failed to take maximum points from the game: "You've got to win your homes games at this level.
For example, Kant's treatment of beauty in terms of disinterested pleasure has obvious elements of hedonism, while the ecstatic neo-Platonism of Plotinus includes not only the unity of the object, but also the fact that beauty calls out love or adoration.
They say sex is only for procreation and it's a sin if the element of pleasure enters.
Sport is the element of pleasure in all this and the injuries are the element of pain, which like many elements in life, go hand in hand.
On conservation and the environment, he said he was firmly against fox hunting, arguing that killing something for pleasure had a psychopathic element to it.
And, along with the perennial challenge of new work, there was an element of pleasure (this may be too bubbly a word) in exploring fresh territories.
