Strong pleasure occurs at closer, blurring quarters.
There's strong pleasure in it, too; the movie is an adventure story in which each clumsy movement of mass and bodies startles.
She had one singular habit, which, I presume, would ultimately have turned into some pursuit; namely a strong pleasure in looking out words or names in dictionaries".
Roberta Smith, in The New York Times, wrote that Mr. Asher took "the fear factor out of institutional critique," in works that had a "strong pleasure component and a fierce, efficient clarity, whether conceptual or experiential".
I have quoted this single-paragraph entry in full, because one of the strong pleasures of "Dept. of Speculation" lies in the lapidary separateness of each paragraph (even as the paragraphs cumulatively overcome their isolation to make a narrative).
To be stronger than pleasure is a true Socratic ideal and distinguishes the Cyrenaic from the wastrel.
And while it was no cinch getting rid of those talismans, to this day I feel a strong residual pleasure when I summon the image of this sophisticated and wealthy but emotionally meager woman lifting an Amazon rain stick and allowing herself to imagine, for an instant, that she could use it to make rain.
It creates strong aesthetic pleasures.
In the end, Callicles' position is perhaps best seen as a series of shifting suggestions or impulses — against conventional justice, against temperance, for the Homeric self-assertion of the strong, for pleasures and psychological intensity — rather than a coherent set of philosophical theses.
Written by Wentworth Miller (yeah, the Prison Break guy), the picture doesn't reinvent any wheels but offers strong genre pleasures for those who like 'this kind of thing'.
