Sentence examples for principal pleasures from inspiring English sources

One of the principal pleasures of running a theatre is being your own producer.

Kingsley is a mystery as we meet him, and the movie's principal pleasures have to do with how screenwriter Kernochan strategically withholds information about him, patiently revealing further layers of his complexity.

But even if playing billiards in a shopping mall and searching sidewalk vendors for a $2 bootleg of the Linken Park CD are not my principal pleasures in foreign travel, that doesn't mean I didn't have a good time or learn a lot about Ecuador.

Levin never published an autobiography, but his book Enthusiasms, published in 1983, consists of chapters on his principal pleasures: books, pictures, cities, walking, Shakespeare, music, food and drink, and spiritual mystery.

For me, watching them act is the movie's principal pleasure.

This sameness is the principal pleasure of "Downton Abbey" — similar to the feeling of arriving home for the holidays.

Though illiterate, Mr. Lai named his principal pleasure palace the Red Mansion after one of China's epic works of fiction.

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

As with that other Roman favourite, carbonara, the principal pleasure of cacio e pepe is in the slurping up of slippery strands of saucy pasta, which, to my mind, rules out rigatoni or paccheri – long noodles are required.

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").

Chelsea Through Sept. 1 "Opulent" makes a good case for the visual pleasure principal.