Sentence examples for sustained pleasure from inspiring English sources

The hard-driving performance of the opening work, "Lobe den Herrn, Meine Seele" ("Praise the Lord, O My Soul," BWV 143), is riveting; the rest, sheer sustained pleasure.

The evening's first sign of promise is its only sustained pleasure, and that's the virtuosic playing of Matt Kovich.

On the day after the sentencing, The Times leading article noted the public's sustained pleasure in the escapade.

Among the film's most sustained pleasures are its holy trinity -- Denzel Washington, Clive Owen and Jodie Foster -- and the best lineup of pusses and mugs outside "The Sopranos".

Likewise, if the goal is to lose weight, gorging on pasta may feel pleasurable while it's going down, but forfeits the more sustaining pleasure of being able to zip up our pants.

As an author, reader, buyer and seller, he has made books a sustaining pleasure.

Her loving devotion to and involvement in the lives of the younger members of her family was a sustaining pleasure for her and for them.

But I can also imagine a grandparent sharing it with a grandchild, each taking away his or her own message concerning the sustaining pleasure of accumulated experience.

That gives the movie a shiver of political currency even if a greater, more sustaining pleasure of this particular haunted-house fantasy is how it works as a metaphor for moviegoing itself.

Research shows that the healthy couple is close yet has autonomous and differentiated identities [ 22], and the corresponding sexual-developmental task is to sustain pleasure [ 10].

Among America's great playwrights he was perhaps the most down to earth, the most keenly attuned to the humble but sustaining pleasures of life, as well as its unavoidable sorrows.