Sentences with phrase «but pleasure at»

Not exact matches

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.

They provide not just transient happiness, like laughing at a friend's joke, but memorable delight... To construct elevated moments, we must boost sensory pleasures... and, if appropriate, add an element of surprise.

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.

Of course I prefer both, but usually if I can get more of one at the expense of the other, I choose reward and learning over pleasure.

Wonderful — but people at MSE now warn that the borrowing back bit may be at the pleasure of the provider.

We can laugh at the rollercoaster but not, I think, at the dark connection — often presented in movies and television programs — between death and sexual pleasure.

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?

At the fundamental core of christianity is a god which promises a glorious afterlife to its true believers — but only if they zealously adhere to myriad rules that forbid or strictly limit basic human pleasures in this life.

As a Canadian, it is a pleasure to know that if I need medical attention I will be covered and that my benefits at work cover anything I may need... not the least of which may be contraceptives (and in my case they would not be for the prevention of pregnancy but for maintaining health).

Chastity in marriage does not mean abstinence (although abstinence is at times called for), but rather purification: seeking to ensure that what is sought above all is to show love for one's spouse and not mainly to satisfy one's own appetite for pleasure — even if that pleasure remains legitimate.

Both sons are prodicals what God is teaching us through the parable is revealing the intents of our hearts there sinful.The younger son wanted the worldly pleasures that was where his heart was at at least he is honest.The older brothers heart was no better because it was all about him it wasnt out of love for his father that he stayed on the farm but that by his works he would gain all that his father had.If he loved his father he would have known how his father would have responded to his brother and he himself would also have been happy to have seen his brother alive again.In the back of his mind he is worried that he may lose more of his inheritance and feels threatened and that is why he responds in the way he does.His heart hasnt changed at all even though his brother has come back from the dead.

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...

I have no pleasure in you, saith the LORD of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand.11 For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts.12 But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the LORD is polluted; and the fruit thereof, even his meat, is contemptible.

But I continue to hope that one day I will have the pleasure of standing by his side at his baptism.

Sex without companionship in marriage is better than no sex at all; but its pleasure falls far short of sex within a relationship of loving and trusting.

Then he began to brood and think of the pleasures and joys of adult life which he, at the age of forty - two, had already known, but which his son would never know.

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

Unfortunately Fr Edward's book Ways of Loving is out of print, but I can assure the reader that all the ends of marriage were very adequately discussed and that his conclusion - «outside of marriage: no deliberate, willed, intended experience of sexual pleasure at all» - was clear and coherent.

I am not certain that this idea is exactly found in Scripture, but regardless of what the original founders thought about the pursuit of happiness, and whether or not it is actually taught in Scripture, the pursuit today is not so much happiness, but pleasure or personal fulfillment, even when such things come at the expense of others.

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.

Entering St Joseph's in Yorkville for the first time, I found it a pleasure to look around — to view the exquisite stained - glass windows in the sanctuary and to peer upward at the less outstanding but still worthy ceiling murals of scenes from the lives of Jesus and Mary.

But if science officially limits itself to behavior, this does not mean that unofficially we cease to acknowledge, in ourselves at least, such qualities as pleasure, pain, sweetness, sourness, fragrance, happiness, joy, sorrow, love, and hate.

I enjoyed writing Gilead, but whatever the pleasures of the writing process, it's excruciating at the same time.

Sure, I might miss the fish»n chips I had in New Zealand three autumns ago, or long to revisit Malaysia's tea plantations, but what I loved the most about those trips was reveling in the simple pleasures of eating a good meal with family, laughing at my brother's fake accents or nursing a steaming cup of tea.

Even if Janzen stretches too far at points, his feel for the richness of language as a tool to inform, but also to evoke, makes this commentary a pleasure to read and an experience in rediscovering the ancestral stories.

Prepared them last night and couldn't wait to get up and try them — so your recipes also help me to get to university in time:D Usually I'm not a morning person at all, but when I'm preparing one of your breakfasts it's always a pleasure to start the day early:)

Not nearly the same but i have been battling a injury for a few weeks now and the small pleasures of feeling better (or at least improvement) is amazing.

I've had the pleasure of making caramel apples in the past, but this was my first ever attempt at making candied apples.

I don't think you should hide your pleasure at positive feedback, but I know what you mean, I generally try not to look too much like a cheshire cat!!!

It's my sole «pleasure» at the moment, but your bread will get tried eventually.

I've never lived near a Costco so I haven't had the pleasure of shopping at one of their warehouses yet, but the good news is that they're opening up a Costco here in Tulsa!

They lie at the intersection of cake and cookie, but the glaze (made with my secret pleasure: Tofutti brand better - than - cream - cheese) really pushes that cake - like indulgence aspect.

Granted, they might cost a little more than your average peanut butter, with soy butter on the cheaper end at $ 5 and pecan ringing in at $ 15, but sometimes the unfettered pleasure of a nut butter sandwich is worth it.

But just because I had the pleasure of eating at his spot recently... Tom Griffen, Sous Chef at Banyan Bar & Refuge in Boston.

I did not have the pleasure of tasting this beauty but I will be trying my hand at it soon I'm sure!

I tend to discount the first 2 - 3 years of Chambers» tenure as Dechellis left the cupboards completely bare (and Chambers had the added pleasure of trying to recruit athletes to Penn State during the fallout from the Sandusky scandal), but at this point he's had a fair amount of time to build his program at Penn State.

No it does nt but a real Arsenal fan will at least show some pleasure of winning a match and beating Mourinho

But us lucky lot at CaughtOffside have already had the pleasure of playing the latest version of the iconic sports management sim.

But at Arsenal he lost his scoring boots and although given 14 games in his first year at the club, he failed to find the net once, although he had the pleasure of playing in the FA Cup semi» final and the Final as Arsenal won their first trophy in nine years.

It is not good for the Premier League but I must admit to feeling a bit of pleasure when Chelsea crashed out of the Champions League at the hands of French champions PSG this week.

What a terrifying vision of the future of football we've been served up this week.AC Milan, once the pride of a powerful and thriving seria A now reduced to shadow boxing against a really not that great United.All because they deserted their natural (and rather beautiful) defensive style of football to join the circus, brought in foreign players (especially brazilians) who think jogging back to defend is beneath them and generally put two fingers up to Italy's historic football traditions.Much good as it done them, and what a boring game?I concede that a lot of football fans nowadays do nt remember anything before the cheque book league but even they must have been struck by the sheer mind numbing pointlessness of it.Even the stewards were asleep by half time.As for the porto match well all that can be said is that they made the gooners look like an half decent well balanced football team, no mean achievement when you think about it.At least we, ve had the pleasure of listening to all those gooners and Mancs waffling on about how great they are which is always hilarious.Especially the stuff about Rooney, just wait till the World Cup when some Italian or South American defender takes him under his wing for half an hour and then see how great he is.If he can survive the WC without being sent off it will be a miracle.All the recent hype has done him no favours at all.Not that the World Cup really inspires these days, its glory days are long over and it's become a competition decided by referees rather than great play.Bear that in mind if Roons has to take the walk of shame, it's not his fault, someone told him he was a truly great player like Bobby Charlton or George Best.The problem is he looks like he believes them.

Dunn is approaching his 30th birthday but he's still showing the younger generation at the club how it's done, much to the pleasure of his manager.

(And now at the risk of sharing TMI...) Having never been with an uncircumcised man (yes, you can infer from that that Jody is circumcised), I was very interested to learn that not only is the pleasure of the male affected by circumcision, but also the pleasure of the female.

The first time may or may not be good for her, but with a little work (or pleasure depending on how you look at it) it all gets better.

Pollan amazes me again and again, not just with his often beautiful prose (the kind of writing where you stop and reread a passage just for the pleasure of it) but with his ingenious way of looking at things, such as exploring how a corn plant manipulates humans, rather than the other way around.

I think it's easy for a woman to get mentally overwhelmed, and sometimes I don't want to be sexual at first, but as soon as I start hearing his pleasure, it turns me on.

I so want to have some schedule with her but it is impossible to make one: (The only thing she takes with pleasure and at anytime is my breast.