Sentence examples for scant pleasure from inspiring English sources
At 38, Mr. Delahaye has little to prove professionally, yet his success gives him scant pleasure.
There are sex and drugs, lots of both, but scant pleasure to be found in either.
The drainpipe climbing could stand as an image for Kelman's achievement in this book as a whole: the courage and tenacity required to pull it off are undeniable — but there is scant pleasure to be had watching him do it.
There will be scant time for such pleasures after Saturday, when Taiwan's 18 million voters head to the polls to elect a new president and legislature.
High and dry on the pavement of the Newport Shipyard in Rhode Island, the 118-foot icebreaking schooner Seamaster bears scant resemblance to the immaculate, gleaming pleasure yachts lining the nearby slips.
Texture, one of the major pleasures of wine, gets scant attention in wine chat.
Small but mighty, the Sage cupcake weighed in at a scant three and a half ounces but delivered twice the pleasure of its bloated competitors.
Public transportation between towns and regions is scant, and the seaside and mountain views make driving a pleasure (though small, twisting two-lane roads, typically without guardrails, are the norm).
Although his work in optics received scant public recognition during his lifetime, Fresnel maintained that not even acclaim from distinguished colleagues could compare with the pleasure of discovering a theoretical truth or confirming a calculation experimentally.
