Sentences with phrase «immediate pleasure»

«Spending comes with immediate pleasure that is difficult to resist,» she says.

Most amount to a personal choice between immediate pleasures and lasting ones.

Drink more water and eat for vitality and energy, not just immediate pleasure.

Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long - term values.

A nap, and the «immediate pleasure of smelling a secret garden in his urine that had been purified by lukewarm asparagus.»

There are two immediate pleasures in seeing Matthew McConaughey essay such a seamy character as Mick Haller, the bottom - feeding title attorney of The Lincoln Lawyer.

Per definition, a «hookup culture» is a culture in which casual dates are accepted, focusing on immediate pleasure rather than long - term commitment...

I worked a mundane, soul - crushing job every week, and partied harder and harder each weekend as a coping method, as a way to have some agency, chasing immediate pleasures to avoid the nagging thought that there must be more to a person's existence.

He notes, for example, that vicars and insurance sellers are in the same game — of convincing people to forgo immediate pleasures for long - term security.

Plus, you get immediate pleasure with this glass, because with it oxygenating your wine right as you pour it, you don't have to waste a second to start sipping.

The problem with today's generation (i.e., my generation), is that we've stopped seeking out and forming relationships for the sake of finding love and are now only interested in finding immediate pleasure or having fun.

This bias can foster immediate pleasure but impede learning.

The house is small (1350 sf), oriented due east / west yet quite shaded at times because of trees and an overhang on the house, but my still immediate pleasure when I get up in the morning is to walk through the house and open every curtain along the way to bring the outside in.

It all adds up to a gorgeous, tone - perfect haunted house filled with immediate pleasures.

We give up immediate pleasures to save our money to buy something that is of lasting pleasure or value.

The result is that, quite apart from the immediate pleasure which any sensible experience may give us, our own general moral attitude in procuring or undergoing the experience brings with it a secondary satisfaction or distaste.

Of course, if a government punishes sexual promiscuity in a certain segment of the population with death the people will become less promiscuous since it focuses everyone's attention on the reality that aside from the immediate pleasure, there can be serious negative consequences.

Above all, it is truer to our supreme responsibility, that of keeping ourselves facing in the direction of humanity and truth in times that tempt us to despair of everything but immediate pleasure.

It explains why the human brain prefers the immediate pleasure of a goal to a vaguely defined non-negative.

Unfortunately, life constantly presents us with situations that pit our well - reasoned resolutions against the promise of immediate pleasure.

If you can overcome your tendency to focus on present, immediate pleasures (like having those cupcakes) and instead delay your gratification and in fact find pleasure in new healthy behaviors (like eating dark chocolate squares instead), you will be setting yourself up, ironically enough, for more short term AND long term good health!

«A new Donna Leon book about Venice Police Commissario Guido Brunetti — the 12th in a memorable series — is ready for our immediate pleasure.

The immediate pleasure of nailing a power slide around a long bend; the rush of whizzing past trucks and buses at completely illegal speeds, while Egyptian pyramids become snow - capped mountains become harbor cobblestones become tulips - carpeted fields of joy around you: unbeatable.

★ THE IMMEDIATE PLEASURE AND PURE ★ No registration, no complicated rules.

I tackle these complex personal landscapes in the studio similar to my approach outside of that space: through endurance, perspective, minor successes, immediate pleasures, Pho Binh lunch buffets, constant longing, and inevitable failure.

Embracing the totality of human experience, Marlene Dumas finds an eternal beauty not in immediate pleasure, but in the timeless gap between the cherished and unspeakable.