Sentence examples for present pleasure from inspiring English sources

That's not a new idea, but the song reminds us that present pleasure is sweet because it is fleeting.

Moreover, the pleasure to be sought is that of the moment; only present experience can give present pleasure.

We don't always act in our self interest, valuing the present pleasure of eating a cookie much more than the future cost to the love handles.

He looks forward to recognition after death not because he expects to achieve something, but as a "present pleasure" – an inert, pure hope.

Smoking is a different, darker social ritual now than it was 30 years ago, when some people could kid themselves that it was anything but a way of bartering present pleasure against the possibility of choking to death before one's time.

"Therefore, as to present Pleasure and Pain the Mind, as has been said, never mistakes that which is really good and evil; that which is the greater Pleasure, or the lesser Pain, is really as it appears" (II, xxi, 63).

Sometimes this is because we underestimate how pleasurable future pleasures will be (relative to present pleasures) or overestimate how painful present pains are (relative to future pains); and sometimes this is because we just make simple mistakes of fact, thinking, for example, that bloodletting will ease the pain of gout.

Providence does not wait to reward us for our abstention from present pleasures.

Positive thinking, by contrast, always leans into the future, ignoring present pleasures.

My mother's idea was to both acknowledge and subdue the past—her past, particularly by giving it a cameo role among her present pleasures.

Like its hero's dream, Mr. Brickman's film is suspended between desire and anxiety, present pleasures and future promises, warm flesh and cold cash.