Sentence examples for pleasure instead of from inspiring English sources

Everything flows together, as it ought to, and shopping becomes a pleasure instead of a chore.

For adolescents of fourteen to eighteen to immerse themselves in idleness and pleasure instead of intensive study and spiritual growth. . . .

At least, then we have the satisfaction of a little short-term pleasure instead of a lifetime of feeling inadequate.

The Sexy Vibes Android app hijacks your phone's vibrating function, using it for pleasure instead of text alerts.

Chinese visitors would still have to obtain visas but they would be allowed to visit for pleasure, instead of requiring a business reason, as now, she said.

Herbert Muschamp's vivid and sympathetic critique of 2 Columbus Circle ["Huntington Hartford's Generous Folly," April 2] places it among the few buildings that hint at what modernism might have looked like if it had been an architecture of pleasure instead of ideology, and had permitted itself to embrace the past as joyfully as it embraced the future.

Scholars have discovered that one way consumers combat hedonic adaptation is to buy many small pleasures instead of one big one.

Surveying the vast literature of happiness research, they suggest: Buy experiences instead of things; buy many small pleasures instead of a few big ones; pay now for things you can look forward to and enjoy later.

That's kind of a shame, because sex really ought to be one of life's simple and safe pleasures, instead of the political hot-rod it has become.

If was hectic to staff departments of music, art, photography, economics and industrial arts, but it was also exciting, especially when students awoke to the stimulating variety of the culture around them as a result of their new requirements - which, of course, turned into pleasures instead of irritations.

In the opening scene at the bacchanal in Venusberg, where the young knight Tannhäuser is growing tired of fleshy pleasures, instead of voluptuous sirens, bathing naiads and dancing nymphs, Mr. Arlaud gives us three robed female attendants to Venus, who pour cups of something (nectar, mead?) from a silver teapot.