Sentence examples for sensual enjoyment from inspiring English sources

Odysseus Elýtis celebrated the Aegean scenery as an ideal world of sensual enjoyment and moral purity.

Anniceris differed from Theodorus in believing that pleasure had to be understood as embracing much more than sensual enjoyment.

"Wine Poem" by Abraham Cowley Cowley was a poetic disciple of Anacreon, and this is but one of his "Anacreontics", celebrating sensual enjoyment.

In his late forties, the statesman-professor has the bulk and the stiffness, but not the gloom, of a homely man; his smile exudes a sensual enjoyment of power which even a child would have noticed.

The application of up-to-date technology and the employment of passive energy devices coexist with the use of rich bodes of color, materials and textures, designed for the wellbeing of the individual and their sensual enjoyment of the built environment.

In his moments with his father, Tom is pulled between affection and disgust; the larcenous old man, with his big stomach and lank hair and sensual enjoyment of food and sex, is the kind of seductively terrible parent one has trouble breaking away from, the parent whose love is like a padlock.

The careful purging of sensual pleasure from aesthetic enjoyment mingles with the paradoxical employment of female bodies as examples of aesthetic objects.

In the 17th century, philosopher Baruch Spinoza summed it up this way: Once the "enjoyment of sensual pleasure is past, the greatest sadness follows".

Call-to-arms excerpts from the Slow Food manifesto employ a seductive language: May suitable doses of guaranteed sensual pleasure and slow, long-lasting enjoyment preserve us from the contagion of the multitude who mistake frenzy for efficiency.

This opposition may be summarized as follows: whereas ancient poetry is plastic, sensual, harmonious and, overall, a poetry of enjoyment of the present; modern poetry is a poetry of desire and longing (Sehnsucht), hovering between the idealizations of a remote past and an unknown future (LDA, 9).

In their ethics, the Charvakas upheld a hedonistic theory according to which enjoyment of the maximum amount of sensual pleasure here in this life and avoidance of pain that is likely to accompany such enjoyment are the only two goals that human beings ought to pursue.