Sentence examples for providing pleasure from inspiring English sources

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

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

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".

And he could be an important artist or just a silly fad – either way, in the street and with this film, he's providing pleasure while he lasts.

And approaching the past from a slant makes us sensitive to the shock of recent films, too, which is ultimately the point: classic works, besides providing pleasure, inform the viewing — and the creation — of audacious and original new films.

Schlegel developed a theory of literary appreciation that anticipated later developments in the field of aesthetics; he insisted that art aims at providing pleasure rather than instruction or moral uplift.

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.