Sentence examples for power pleasure from inspiring English sources

A girl's world is drenched in romance, and the process by which she negotiates that deep emotional need with the countervailing force of sexuality — with all its power, pleasure and danger — is the great work of female adolescence.

To a degree, "Don Jon" echoes an idea that the film theorist Linda Williams advances toward the end of "Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the 'Frenzy of the Visible,' " her revolutionary feminist study of pornographic films and their contradictions.

But in the 17th and 18th centuries, European thinkers in search of political stability and order looked beyond the religious strictures that had manifestly failed to repress unruly rulers' passions for power, pleasure and possessions.

"It is true that nowadays, to some extent, everyone, including our young people, feels attracted by the many idols which take the place of God and appear to offer hope - money, success, power, pleasure," the pontiff said during the service.

Techniques used in rationing include restricting the uses of an item, for example, forbidding the use of gasoline to power pleasure boats, limiting the number of vehicles to be owned by every citizen to one, setting a maximum amount a person can spend for fuel (petrol or diesel) etc.   3.

Techniques used in rationing include restricting the uses of an item, for example, forbidding the use of gasoline to power pleasure boats, limiting the number of vehicles to be owned by every citizen to one, setting a maximum amount a person can spend for fuel (petrol or diesel) etc. Improved technology through electric cars.

But then Joy is never in our power and Pleasure often is".

Yet he is hungry also for power and pleasure.

(In Paris's case, as the ISIS communiqué demonstrated, the power of pleasure, too).

And it's a hymn to the enduring power and pleasure of intellectual thought.

About power, beauty, pleasure, sex, money, class, desire, gender, age — the aspirations and desperations of millions of people.