Sentences with phrase «at your pleasure with»

The first thing they should do is install Netflix and a Kindle app, watch and read at your pleasure with this marvelous display quality.

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Instead, focus on small pleasures, like scheduling dinner with a friend at the end of a taxing workday, arranging for a massage at the end of the week or at the conclusion of a long business trip, or even relaxing with a mindless television program if your brain has simply been firing for too long.

(I had the pleasure of meeting Michaud at an event I co-hosted with Canadian Business back in October.

I had the pleasure of working with Conrad during his time at Curtin while working on Virtual Observer.

During the speech, I had the pleasure of sitting with a young couple from Nappanee Window who graced the 2005 Inc. 500 list at No. 299 and enjoyed the conference in Savannah so much that they decided to join us again to celebrate the 2006 honorees.

«We've had the pleasure of consulting with both the SAIL Capital Partners team and the investment banking team at Stifel Nicolaus in the U.S. on various deals,» says Rob Peterman, Head of Business Development for the technology sector for TSX and TSX Venture.

But then there are the holiday duds: the fruitcakes of Hollywood that some may love with an inexplicable guilty pleasure, or love to groan at whenever they come on.

If you can find a way to delay gratification a bit, you'll not only be able to keep your days filled with hard work, but you'll also be able to truly enjoy the small pleasures in life, a little at a time.

He would associate his childhood with simple pleasures and ongoing loss, a general longing for simpler times and the physical handicap of his blind left eye, injured at age 7 when a neighborhood girl jammed a bottle in his face.

«I'm stunned by how many people don't do homework,» says Vaynerchuk, who I had the pleasure of sitting down with at the recent Dublin Tech Summit.

As my colleague Geoffrey James wrote,» [Approach] lifelong learning with a sense of fun that adds pleasure and energy to the tasks at hand.

What he's getting at with this division, however, is the difference between people with a cooperative attitude and those with a competitive attitude: between those who are happy to share the pleasures of the modern world and those who are stuck in an old mindset.

John Williams, who I had the pleasure of being with almost my entire time there, he succeeded Janet at the San Francisco Fed, is really a perfect choice for two reasons.

There are many pleasures in this story about investment banks pitching activism preparedness so I guess we might as well start with the cheapest of them, 1 which is that people who work at investment banks sometimes use words funny:

On a recent interview I did, I had the pleasure of speaking with a friend and colleague who is a genius at building business relationships.

We, at the Global Opportunity Network would like to thank all participants at our Opportunity Lab last week in New York City — it was a pleasure working with you and thanks for all the great input on how to address five global risks with global opportunities!

That diversity is on display in a major way at the Los Angeles Times» second annual L.A. Food Bowl festival, which runs for the full month of May and includes hundreds of different meal events from high - profile chefs like Nancy Silverton (Mozza), Curtis Stone (Gwen) and Yoshihiro Narisawa whose eponymous Tokyo restaurant Gold said made him «shudder with pleasure» in his review this past month.

Today I had the pleasure of moderating a panel on social selling with the following gentlemen, who each run social selling or employee advocacy programs, either at their brands, or in support of their clients:

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The issues with which the author deals and the questions he raises are aimed at those who would claim any absolute values in this life, including possessions, fame, success, or pleasure.

If it gives them some pleasure or helps them to relax, if it provides companionship with others who think the same way, have at it.

At the upmarket end of popular culture, he provides his many readers a momentary pleasure of pretended angst about their certitudes, a brush with ever so refined and regretful unbelief.

Having had the pleasure of knowing Hannah Arendt, albeit much too slightly, and moreover of having known more closely Heinrich Bluecher when I was his assistant in the World Civilizations program at Bard College in 1958 «1959, I can say there are few people who, in their writings and their persons, could face with such clear determination the heights and the depths of European civilization in the last century.

She had apparently got to the point where she honestly did not know that a child is the natural fruit of a union between a man and a woman: in her understanding «sex» is something done for pleasure, according to one's desires, whether lesbian or homosexual or whatever, and procreation an entirely different matter connected with options presented at various times, possibly involving in - vitro fertilization and test - tubes.

Suppose, in a kind of contented abstinence, we were to refrain from trying to understand more of the landscape before us than the landscape cared to display for us, that we were willing to follow the bend of bough and straggle of gravel and tilt of pole wherever the bend and the straggle and the tilt chanced to take us, that we concerned ourselves not with pattern or profit or even pleasure but merely with watching like a token sentinel in safe country, that we gave our eyes a quiet carte blanche and permitted our minds to play at liberty over the face of an untouched terrain?

Paul said something similar when he wrote to the Christians in Philippi, «Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; for God is at work in you, both to will and to work for [God's] good pleasure» (Phil.

And Lo how Mount Doom rumbled with pleasure at it's coming...

The only friend to walk with is one who so exactly shares your taste for each mood of the countryside that a glance, a halt, or at most a nudge, is enough to assure us that the pleasure is shared.

Until now (and with the exception of one attempt, fortunately thwarted, against a church in Ivry), the fanatics had attacked aspects of the flattering self - image that we «citizens» have of ourselves: the iconoclastic insolence of Charlie Hebdo, the pagan cult of sport at the French National Stadium, the carefree pleasure of the Bataclan and the boho outdoor cafés of the Eleventh Arrondissement in Paris, the 14th of July fireworks in Nice celebrating a Revolution that has promoted great ideals but also the guillotine...

It requires a consistent, often painful, examination of conscience with the welfare of others as well as ourselves in mind and the self - discipline not to pursue our own self - interest or pursue pleasure at the expense of others even though our survival instincts predispose us to do just that.

The child Lewis — an Ulster Protestant with the usual hostility towards papists — would have been amazed at the adult Lewis» thoroughly Catholic theology of pleasure: «There is no good in trying to be more spiritual than God.

Mornings in Bodley, drowsing among the worn browns and tarnished gilding of Duke Humphrey, snuffing the faint, musty odor of slowly perishing leather...; long afternoons, taking an outrigger up the Cher, feeling the rough kiss of the sculls on unaccustomed palms, listening to the rhythmical and satisfying kerklunk of the rowlocks, watching the play of muscles on the Bursar's sturdy shoulders at stroke, as the sharp spring wind flattened the thin silk shirt against them; or, if the day were warmer, flicking swiftly in a canoe under Magdalen walls and so by the twisting race at King's Mill by Mesopotamia to Parson's Pleasure; then back, with mind relaxed and body stretched and vigorous, to make toast by the fire.

Whatever one's quibbles with the list, few would disagree that teaching students who would be at home with the vocabulary would be an unlikely pleasure in today's world.

But enthusiasm is only a temporary state of Religion, and whilst it lasts will hardly be seen with pleasure at the helm.

I had the distinct pleasure of spending the weekend at Montgomery Belle State Park with the amazing women of Grace Pointe Church (Nashville, TN).

It is a great pleasure to be able to host one's friends at a modest cost and serve them a delightful beverage that stands up with the very best martinis one can find.

When I met sometimes with merry companions, and my heart was ready to sink, I would labor to put on as cheerful a countenance as possible, that they might not distrust anything, and sometimes would begin some discourse with young men or young women on purpose, or propose a merry song, lest the distress of my soul would be discovered, or mistrusted, when at the same time I would then rather have been in a wilderness in exile, than with them or any of their pleasures or enjoyments.

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

That there may be some who need compulsion, some who, if they were free - footed, would riot in selfish pleasures like unruly beasts, is doubtless true; but a man must prove precisely that he is not of this number by the fact that he knows how to speak with dread and trembling; and out of reverence for the great one is bound to speak, lest it be forgotten for fear of the ill effect, which surely will fail to eventuate when a man talks in such a way that one knows it for the great, knows its terror — and apart from the terror one does not know the great at all.

Dinish is well at home with the GOP crowd «For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre» (ps.5: 9), but God is «not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness» (ps.5: 5) and so although Dinish and by extension the GOP don't care who they hurt with their lies and behind the scenes dirty tactics like that silly film, they are cautioned not to include the name of God in their wickedness.

The merman has lifted her up in his arms, Agnes twines about his neck, with her whole soul she trustingly abandons herself to the stronger one; he already stands upon the brink, he leans over the sea, about to plunge into it with his prey — then Agnes looks at him once more, not timidly, not doubtingly, not proud of her good fortune, not intoxicated by pleasure, but with absolute faith in him, with absolute humility, like the lowly flower she conceived herself to be; by this look she entrusts to him with absolute confidence her whole fate — and, behold, the sea roars no more, its voice is mute, nature's passion which is the merman's strength leaves him in the lurch, a dead calm ensues — and still Agnes continues to look at him thus.

I personally like curling up with the Bible, a nice cup of coffee, and a piece of chocolate cake - three guilty pleasures that I know may not be good for me, but they help me forget reality during those times when it is at its most oppressive.

Not even the American people themselves seem completely at ease about whether their admitted obsessions with sexual pleasure and material possession meet the test of external and overriding criteria.

Handsomely bound, with marbled end - papers, silk ribbons and gilded edges it is certainly a pleasure to look at and to handle.

At that instant of time when I gave all up to him to do with me as he pleased, and was willing that God should rule over me at his pleasure, redeeming love broke into my soul with repeated scriptures, with such power that my whole soul seemed to be melted down with love; the burden of guilt and condemnation was gone, darkness was expelled, my heart humbled and filled with gratitude, and my whole soul, that was a few minutes ago groaning under mountains of death, and crying to an unknown God for help, was now filled with immortal love, soaring on the wings of faith, freed from the chains of death and darkness, and crying out, My Lord and my God; thou art my rock and my fortress, my shield and my high tower, my life, my joy, my present and my everlasting portioAt that instant of time when I gave all up to him to do with me as he pleased, and was willing that God should rule over me at his pleasure, redeeming love broke into my soul with repeated scriptures, with such power that my whole soul seemed to be melted down with love; the burden of guilt and condemnation was gone, darkness was expelled, my heart humbled and filled with gratitude, and my whole soul, that was a few minutes ago groaning under mountains of death, and crying to an unknown God for help, was now filled with immortal love, soaring on the wings of faith, freed from the chains of death and darkness, and crying out, My Lord and my God; thou art my rock and my fortress, my shield and my high tower, my life, my joy, my present and my everlasting portioat his pleasure, redeeming love broke into my soul with repeated scriptures, with such power that my whole soul seemed to be melted down with love; the burden of guilt and condemnation was gone, darkness was expelled, my heart humbled and filled with gratitude, and my whole soul, that was a few minutes ago groaning under mountains of death, and crying to an unknown God for help, was now filled with immortal love, soaring on the wings of faith, freed from the chains of death and darkness, and crying out, My Lord and my God; thou art my rock and my fortress, my shield and my high tower, my life, my joy, my present and my everlasting portion.

And so Jesus tells stories of lost things being found and directly connects the owner's joy at their recovery with God's pleasure as sinners repent and find welcome.

It seems to me less arbitrary and more logical to go along with Jennings (quoted by Agar 1943, p. 153), who wrote after years of study on the behavior of amoebae: «I am thoroughly convinced, after long study of the behavior of this organism, that if Amoeba were a large animal, so as to come within the every day experience of human beings, its behavior would at once call forth the attribution to it of states of pleasure and pain, of hunger, desire, and the like, on precisely the same basis as we attribute these things to the dog.»

And while at times he mocks the fear of sex supposedly endemic to the religious, he does not make the heart race with anger or lust: «Why do you blush to hear the praise of pleasure, when you do not blush to indulge its temptations under cover of night?»

Custard creams are a curious British pleasure, which I never indulge at any other time, so I associate them rather oddly with blood.