Sentence examples for pressing pleasure from inspiring English sources

And the idea of shopping buttons placed just within our reach conjures an uneasy image of our homes as giant Skinner boxes, and of us as rats pressing pleasure levers until we pass out from exhaustion.

Defence: When the Wanderers defend high up the park, their pressing is a pleasure to watch.

As a result, almost nothing gives me greater pleasure than pressing double-fudge brownies into their sugar-deprived fingers.

Near the end, Streep, pressing even harder, underlines Thatcher's pleasure in humiliating her Cabinet.

"Their work-rate and the way they played the game, pressing and dispossessing Hartlepool, was a real pleasure to see.

It was pale, about the size of a hardcover novel, but much thinner, and it had a smallish screen and a QWERTY keyboard at the bottom made of tiny round pleasure-dot keys that resisted pressing.

The autumn of 1924 was spent largely in the pursuit of pleasure until, shortly before Christmas, the pressing need to earn money led Waugh to apply for teaching jobs in private schools.

"If you smoke," she adds with a faint smile, pressing a cigarette to her lips, "it's for pleasure".

It appeared then that she made records not to pleasure an audience but to answer a pressing chorus of inner voices.

When Orville felt these girly items "pressing gently against his side" as he carried them in his pocket, "it gave him a sudden and peculiar pleasure, a feeling of protection in an enemy world".

When pressing, you might feel a bit of soreness or pain, but it should be a balance between pain and pleasure.