Sentence examples for provided pleasure from inspiring English sources

In the United States and around the world, roots music is thriving, bringing older and younger people alike in touch with traditions of musical, verbal, and social play that have provided pleasure and stimulated thought for centuries.

But Ms. Piper, 52, is not interested in providing pleasure.

A book can provide pleasure even if it is not imaginatively conceived or well observed.

A cat has value, he's said, because it provides pleasure to humans.

These pathways are not necessarily centres that provide punishment in the sense that a reward centre provides pleasure.

The fish is so fresh and tenderly treated, it provides pleasure to the eyes with no impression on the nose.

Gushing waterfalls provide pleasure; games of paintball, in which friends playfully (and sometimes painfully) shoot one another with pellets of paint, provide fun.

Both were in the business of providing pleasure for their consumers, the more fashionable the shoes, and the tastier the news, the better.

Pigafetta knew that his prurient interest in pierced penises, genital stretching and coitus arranged specifically to provide pleasure to females would never be condoned by the church.

Our flower corridors and vegetable patches are helping the insect world as much as they provide pleasure to us, which is good news for everyone.

Then it entered a kind of afterlife as a beautiful instrument and gorgeous furniture, providing pleasure not only for the ear but for the eye".