At first, the trip went well, even its commonplace locomotion yielding pleasures that, with her strength and philosophical aplomb, Stark made seem easy: There is a cheerful quality in the neat brisk sound of trotting donkey feet on hard ground.
The 1975 is an album with so many delights that, despite the instant sugar rush, it also works as a slow burn, yielding more pleasures than one could ever have expected.
So, yielding to the pleasure principle, I put the big issues on hold and sped to the premiere.
Baseball is a game of subtle nuances and endless complexities, a superficially simple spectacle capable of yielding small quotidian pleasures that unfold gradually over the course of the long season.
He liked to watch his daughters sliding, tumbling down the mountain of sawdust, the simple soft pleasure of yielding to gravity, while gravity was a physical thing, not a worry about the way things were working out in the world.
An excellent piece of swordfish was grilled, according to request, a little on the rare side, yielding juicy, flavorful, piscatorial pleasures.
Yet Heath moves beyond ideological content analysis to examine Jaws as a signal example of the film as "industrial product" that sells on the basis of "the pleasure of cinema, thus yielding the perpetuation of the industry (which is why part of the meaning of Jaws is to be the most profitable movie)".
Her squeeze machine had worked exactly as she hoped, yielding the very sense of calmness and pleasure she had dreamed of since childhood.
"There are many things in it: the importance of yielding and collapse, of delicacy, connecting effort to pleasure, working without mirrors, learning to listen to your body before telling it what to do," Naharin says.
Dreaming and fantasy play important roles in yielding contemplative gratification in the sense of constructing pleasure from even mundane activities.
