Sentence examples for pleasure refinement from inspiring English sources

"Wine has this place as a delicacy, a sensuous experience, a deep pleasure, refinement, so I wanted to celebrate through the image, evoke some of that," Mr. Fischl said.

A female France, seen as the bastion of sensual pleasure and elite cultural refinement, is a made-to-order enemy for the Texan in the White House, Ms. Douglas contended.

Is the business of sketching a voyeuristic refinement of sexual pleasure – or is something even more strange going on?

She dramatized this tangle in "Somewhere" (Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, and others), from 2010, which is one of the most tender of recent father-daughter stories and an incisive view of the pleasures and the burdens, the refinement and the crudeness, of a Hollywood-centered life.

"Sexual pleasure was not only superior, in refinement and violence, to all the other pleasures life had to offer," he bemoans.

I wasn't a particularly articulate or amusing child, but when I started writing letters to my friends I became funny and enjoyed being it - even before the friends read the letters and said they were good, so it wasn't just the act of communication that gave me pleasure, it was the intention to communicate, a refinement of pleasure unavailable to the pre-literate.

In introducing the doctrine of higher pleasures, Mill appears to want to make some refinement within hedonism (II 3 5).

The tC takes the idea a step further in refinement and style while adding more driving pleasure to the equation.

His protagonist is a supreme aesthete risen from the petite bourgeoisie to cultivate an aristocratic taste for pleasure and murder and who, from the high perch of his ravenous refinement, satirically punches down at the narrow-minded masses manipulated into moralism by their self-interested overlords.

These guilty pleasures, staged by Robert Ross Parker, whose broad-stroke style has grown in confidence and refinement over the years, will not surprise followers of the company Vampire Cowboys.

Seidel's satanic refinement is expressed in poems at once suave and vengeful, their garish pleasures linked to the many splendid goods — Ducati motorcycles, bespoke suits, Italian shoes — that they describe.