Sentences with phrase «derive much pleasure»

But even if I indulge myself and pretend that's the case, zerging isn't really a talent I'd want to nurture, because I just don't derive much pleasure from building an army and mindlessly hurling it at the enemy.

SMALL SENSATION Sirs: I have been reading your magazine for about six years and have derived much pleasure from it.

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The ordinary pleasures of life — both those simply given to us in nature and those derived from culture — play a large role in Lewis's thinking and account for much of the power of his writing.

I shouldn't derive nearly as much pleasure from this as I do but one of the things that happens when you breastfeed with small boobs is that people lose their sh*t.

As Mireille Guiliano (in French Women For All Seasons) writes, «The joy of living is in direct proportion to how much pleasure you know how to derive from every aspect of living.»

In fact, much of the pleasure from the film is derived from hearing Cumberbatch, Strong and Dance simply talk, their mellifluous baritones the stuff of Shakespearean rhapsody.

Much of the joy of owning a Miata is the pleasure one derives from the involvement of the stick shift.

When you're budgeting, stop thinking about return on investment and focus instead on how much pleasure you will derive from the changes.

One of the key tenets of behavioral finance is loss aversion theory — the idea that investors feel the pain of losses much more acutely than they feel the pleasure derived from gains.

The field of behavioral finance has demonstrated that the pain we derive from market losses impacts us twice as much as the pleasure we feel from market gains.

Riley's formally taut, abstract compositions yield a singular sense of visual pleasure for the viewer, a notion derived as much from the artist's formative encounters with Old Master and Impressionist painting as from her early experiences with nature.

Slow Design, much like its gastronomic predecessor, is all about pulling back on the reins and taking time to do things well, do them responsibly, and do them in a way that allows the designer, the artisan and the end user to derive pleasure from it.