Once we've experienced an initial rush, we're inclined to keep seeking it, even as the pleasure diminishes over time, and even when the consequences are ultimately self-defeating -- as they are from overeating, or snorting cocaine, or shifting focus from one object of attention to another.
"People change over time.
For some among us, these pleasures lessen over time.
Other changes, such as a numbed pleasure response, worsened over time.
But it is also a drink whose complex pleasures seem to amplify over time.
There is absolutely no reason not to sacrifice a couple of your evenings for the sake of the Caratis, the lightly bound clan at the heart of Giordana's epic — not, I should add, because they will offer you a pulsing escape from your own family life but precisely because the rhythm of their pleasures and scarrings will, over time, come to seem like a consoling echo of your own.
If this is true, it offers a reason why we might mistake a quantitative for a qualitative difference, namely, that we mistake variations in sensory intensities and intensity-patterns over time, with which pleasure is attached or attendant, for qualitative differences in the pleasures themselves.
The tiny amount of dry-aged lamb that Chris Dunn produces is sold, she said, to "discerning young couples who want to feed young kids, trophy wives dripping in expensive jewelry and driving Beamers, little old ladies who don't mind what it costs, busy professionals and people who want to take time and pleasure over their cooking".
More specifically, it was a great pleasure to watch OMA's CCTV Headquarters being realized over time.
