Sentence examples for selfish pleasure from inspiring English sources

Walking, like writing, can be a selfish pleasure.

She says running has given her self-belief and acknowledges it's a selfish pleasure.

"I cannot tell you the selfish pleasure I get out of working with President Clinton," Mr. Bush said.

At Revillon, I felt it wasn't about displaying one's wealth, but rather giving the woman a selfish pleasure.

One wonders if the novel's uncomfortably literal rendition of "tragedy porn" — through which someone derives selfish pleasure while witnessing or trying to ignore a narrative of suffering — is a calculated indictment of a certain type of reader.

And probably also, the most delicious". Of course, my hope that readers of this blog will seek out this excellent writer does somewhat diminish my selfish pleasure in being a literary pioneer.

Because these female impediments to Dean's selfish pleasure-seeking are far more real on the screen than in the book, his romantic mystique is fatally tarnished in the movie.

It's true that Leonora's mother rejects her, but Edward's situation is at least as tragic; he has no parents at all, and yet he is not "possessed by a demon", as even Leonora herself believes – "I am, I am". The daughter of a selfish, pleasure-seeking woman, she cannot look on her own reflection.

The Salwens' experience confirms the selfish pleasures of selflessness.

A team including Dr. Jorge Moll of the National Institutes of Health found that when a research subject was encouraged to think of giving money to a charity, parts of the brain lit up that are normally associated with selfish pleasures like eating or sex.

I would like them fine if they would stop drinking, stop lying, stop cheating, be more serious about their work, a little less involved with their neuroses, a little less concerned with their selfish pleasures and more with loyalty, dignity, duty, and responsibility.