Sentence examples for self enjoyment from inspiring English sources

The "entertainment" reaffirmed whites' self-appointed right to turn black people into a spectacle for self enjoyment.

There are many images of lushness and self-enjoyment, "like a cat licking its hair," as Violette Verdy, the ballet's foremost star, put it.

In the free time of self-enjoyment, animals exceed the realm of necessity that is defined by self-preservation and open the realm of freedom.

In contrast, animals that can play games, explore new aspects of their environment, or be absorbed in purring, have a capacity for self-enjoyment that is distinct from self-preservation.

I had come to a tiny film set, at the headquarters of Zi Yu Zi Le ("self-entertainment, self-enjoyment"), a company that shoots videos for Meipai and a few other platforms.

Yet even animals with highly refined capacities for self-enjoyment remain within the bounds of natural freedom, insofar as they cannot ask themselves how they should spend their time and thereby cannot relate to their time as free.

Dainichi expresses the self-enjoyment of his enlightenment in these three functions of bodily gestures (mudras), the intoning of sounds (mantras), and visualizing-thinking (mandalas).

The expounding of the Dharma is in one sense then really the Buddha's monologic expression of his own self-enjoyment in samadhic bliss.

Lipps also characterizes our experience of beauty as "objectified self-enjoyment," since we are impressed by the "vitality" and "life potentiality" that lies in the perceived object (Lipps 1906, 1903 a,b.

From Kûkai's esoteric standpoint, the hosshin even in its samadhic self-enjoyment is preaching the Dharma in its cosmic monologue — for its very embodiment is the cosmos itself so that its samadhic experiencing of the Dharma permeates everywhere and everywhen.

Freedom is given sensuous expression, therefore, when it is embodied in an individual who stands alone in his or her "self-enjoyment, repose, and bliss [Seligkeit]" (Aesthetics, 1: 179).