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Pleasure in sentence

1776 examples of Pleasure in a sentence

It only goes to show he was an intemperate king who allowed faction and intrigue to rule his court, concerned only with his own pleasure and grandiosity.
Even my secret pleasure of studying the Italian painters have been infected by politics.
In addition, attractive faces activate parts of our reward and pleasure centers in the front and deep in the brain, and these include areas that have complicated names, like the ventral striatum, the orbitofrontal cortex and the ventromedial prefrontal cortex.
Our visual brain that is tuned to processing faces interacts with our pleasure centers to underpin the experience of beauty.
Another group similarly found automatic responses to beauty within our pleasure centers.
Taken together, these studies suggest that our brain automatically responds to beauty by linking vision and pleasure.
Looking after this man is a pleasure.
Mr. Chairman, Mr. Mitchell, it's a great pleasure and a great honor to be able to appear before you in examination with what is going wrong with our economy.
I've had the pleasure of being able to see how many different products are manufactured, from golf clubs to laptop computers to internet servers, automobiles and even airplanes.
In this one, scientists looked at children who were reading for pleasure.
The data showed that children who were reading for pleasure at the ages of five and 10 were more likely to go on in school better, on average, on school tests later in their lives.
He answered, "The purpose of poetry is pleasure; it's for emotion, it's for living."
(Applause and cheers) (Music ends) (Applause and cheers) Amber, it's such a pleasure to share this stage with you, and to make my music accessible to an audience who might be hard of hearing or Deaf and otherwise might not be able to be included in my music.
“It was a pleasure to burn.
It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed.”
But as his pleasure gives way to doubt, the story raises critical questions of how to preserve one’s mind in a society where free will, self-expression, and curiosity are under fire.
I have to tell you about my friend Len, to talk about why positive psychology is more than positive emotion, more than building pleasure.
Just to sample the kind of interventions that we find have an effect: when we teach people about the pleasant life, how to have more pleasure in your life, one of your assignments is to take the mindfulness skills, the savoring skills, and you're assigned to design a beautiful day.
It turns out the pursuit of pleasure has almost no contribution to life satisfaction.
Where pleasure matters is if you have both engagement and you have meaning, then pleasure's the whipped cream and the cherry.
Is health a function of positive engagement, of pleasure, and of meaning in life?
She knew some of this variety was uncomfortable, and that her stories could be an acquired taste – but she took pleasure in challenging her readers.
My name is Tom Thum, and I've got to say it's a pleasure to be back at TEDx.
It is a pleasure to be here on the TEDx stage tonight.
It's about defining pleasure and satisfaction on your terms.
So I went down to the unit and had the pleasure of meeting Anne.
I had the pleasure of meeting Leah a few years back.
I had the pleasure of borrowing from the Longitude Prize and the Orteig Prize that put Lindbergh forward.
Margrethe Vestager: It was a pleasure.
MV: It was a pleasure.
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