Sentence examples for transient pleasures from inspiring English sources
They are transient pleasures, to be enjoyed with a not entirely clear head.
In other Christmas poems he admonished his own children to be humble, mindful of their mortality and aloof from transient pleasures.
It was here that the term ukiyo, or floating world, was coined; formerly a Buddhist metaphor for the transience of mortal existence, it came to describe the pursuit of transient pleasures.
If we think of a person as consisting of multiple selves (the present self who wishes to indulge in transient pleasures versus the future self who wishes to be healthy, as we assume in our model), the present self's choices can force externalities on the future self.
Being the last word in designer hotel chic in London is a transient pleasure.
Such is the transient pleasure of meze, the Greek tradition of small plates and the focus of Boukiés (pronounced boo-KAY-ess), an airy, casually elegant restaurant that opened in the East Village last spring.
William Henry Harrison You know how we live in a society so deeply designed to benefit men and punish women that women routinely dress sexily for New Year's Eve parties and then are forced to stand outside, shivering, waiting for the bus, contracting hypothermia because men's transient pleasure is more important to our culture than women's physical wellbeing?
As far as he was concerned, "Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny," his 1930 collaboration with Kurt Weill, fell into the category of "culinary opera" — a medium of transient pleasure, even if it managed to leave a delectably bitter taste in the mouths of the middle classes.
But then you might ask, "Where is it?" The problem, they discovered lies not in its absence, but in our human tendency to look in the wrong place, mistaking ordinary and transient pleasure for a resilient and enduring happiness.
Reading books is and always has been a difficult pleasure, not a "transient joy" in the words of Bob Dylan.
Happiness is a complex, nebulous state that is fed by transient simple pleasures, as well as the more sustained rewards of activities that only make sense from a perspective of years or decades.
