Sentences with phrase «fleeting pleasure»

When we rely too much on fleeting pleasures for our satisfaction, eventually this can actually alter the brain's capacity to experience pleasure from anything else.

By which I mean the level of consciousness that medals and cups can bring only fleeting pleasure, and that true fulfilment comes only from within.

Calamitously uninspired and borderline incoherent, new pic lacks even those fleeting pleasures (namely, a sense of humor) that made the first film a passable popcorn attraction.

What keeps the movie, busily plotted by actor - writer Justin Theroux, from Iron deficiency is its fleeting pleasures, like Garry Shandling's politico mixing it up with Stark, Rockwell's jealous fuming on the sidelines, and the screwball fizz between Stark and the frazzled Pepper Potts.

He then finds that the joy of a holy walk is infinitely more satisfying than the fleeting pleasures of sin.

Starting with suggested tools (wires, frames and cutters of every kind), they take you step - by - step through the building of any wreath using branches, stems, leaves and flowers with hundreds of pages of «recipes» for spring, summer, fall and winter — each holding in sweet suspension the fleeting pleasures of its particular season.

On my way home from the gallery, mulling the connection between The Great Gatsby — a book I revere in large measure for its understanding of evanescence and the price of fleeting pleasure — and the paintings to which I had been having such a pleasurable response, I began to have second thoughts about all that fun.

Here at Stem, we hope all our clients and readers make time to slow down, enjoy the fleeting pleasures of summer, and recharge for the inevitably busy fall ahead.