Sentence examples for pleasure means from inspiring English sources

That's what serving 'at the pleasure' means".

The passing of sensual pleasure means virtue can come to the fore.

If that pleasure means anything to you, it is the one I tried to give, at novel length, to the reader of "Solo".

That we judge virtue by means of an immediate sensation of pleasure means that judgments of virtue are judgments of taste, no less than judgments of beauty.

Suicide is condemned, but their commitment to pleasure means that euthanasia is practised: there is no Christian concept of value in suffering, though those strange religious groups, the Buthrescas, put up with hardship now to win happiness after death (CU: 229).

Pleasure means different things to different people, especially when we are talking about sex.

He suggests there's no such thing as an objectively pleasurable or meaningful activity; rather, each individual defines what purpose and pleasure mean for themselves.

And yet what would our pleasure mean without Don John's forlorn, lonely presence, his emotional violence toward his own soul?

Although it was in fact an austere philosophy in which "pleasure" meant freedom from pain and fear rather than self-indulgence, epicureanism became identified among most Christian writers with swinish self-indulgence.

When his editor and friend Diana Athill scolded him, he replied, "I am having carnal pleasure for the first time in my life, are you saying I must give it up?" Carnal pleasure meant violence — in fact it was inextricable from beating Margaret up, degrading her in bed, turning the great man's penis into an object of worship.

The women's liberation movement, which emphasized political activism over recreation and sexual pleasure, meant that lesbian bars and strictly delineated butch/femme roles, which were seen as mimicking unequal heterosexual power dynamics fell out of favor.