Sentence examples for pleasure to lay from inspiring English sources

A proper ditch is something in which it is a pleasure to lay a length of pipe.

So leisure is licence, freedom - specifically, freedom from work and duties, allowing one to be at ease, to turn to pleasure, to lay obligations and rules aside.

I've spent much of the last 12 years writing about the economy, and it was a pleasure to lay out my thoughts at a more leisurely pace than an 1,100-word 1,100-wordmits.

It was Streatfeild who introduced him to the eccentric bohemian hostess Mrs Astley-Cooper ("Her principal pleasure," wrote Coward, "was to lie flat on her back on a mattress in front of the fire and shoot off witticisms in a sort of petulant wail").

Between their efforts and my counseling, and the promised land of dietary pleasure in the pursuit of health and health from the pursuit of pleasure -- lay the constant shadow of food industry distortion, if not deception.

Wild, frenzied intercourse can cause pain, but it can also transport us to a place of blissful peace, close to the ultimate pleasure that lies in stress-free, stimuli-free death.

Another pleasure of this concert was that everything performed was a rarity, but the principal pleasure lay in the Avison Ensemble's sheer excellence.

Her pleasure lay in editing and shaping copy.

I love that, but I hope he didn't mean that the pleasure lay in their slowness alone.

Again like a sonnet, the show worked wondrous variations on that form, and a great deal of the pleasure lay in seeing how much creativity could be displayed within those confines.

Perhaps they truly think capping housing benefit will force people to take those well-paid jobs they've been turning down for the pleasure of lying in bed all day while their neighbours go out to work.