Sentence examples for pleasure pursued from inspiring English sources

Sexual pleasure pursued purely for its own sake runs counter to what Freud called the "reality principle" and social philosopher Herbert Marcuse later adapted as the "performance principle" – ie the restraints placed on us by the demands of civilised society, whereby sexual gratification has to be earned through social "performance".

A writer for The New Yorker, for instance, calls it "an idea carried too far, an idle pleasure pursued to the point of mania, and even now…its attraction is almost indistinguishable from its excessiveness".

Or were there other ways, in the pre-digital age, that people who seek these pleasures pursued them?

Or, to put it at its most cynical, if you do not even put the pursuit of power before pleasure, why pursue it?

Thoughout a courageously fought 16-year battle with cancer, Susan always pursued pleasure and never looked back.

The actual knowledge he possesses is that the proposed liaison is a case of pleasure to be pursued.

He thus has (habitually) the knowledge that he should avoid fornication, but he fornicates nonetheless because he actually sees the fornication as an act of pleasure to be pursued.

Writing in 1969, art historian E. H. Gombrich drew on a close reading of Genesis and the Gospel According to Saint Matthew to suggest that the central panel is, according to Linfert, "the state of mankind on the eve of the Flood, when men still pursued pleasure with no thought of the morrow, their only sin the unawareness of sin".

Le Plaisir du texte (1973; The Pleasure of the Text) pursued the concept of the subversive pleasure of reading.

To pursue pleasure is to be pursued by punishment.

Pleasure is still being pursued, but now there is more pain, guilt and anxiety.