Sentences with phrase «immediate pleasure of»

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

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

Work is any activity entered into for the sake of an end, and it is normal for the, human spirit, in contrast with animal experience, to have ends in view for which the immediate pleasures of idleness will voluntarily be surrendered.

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It's a substantial magazine of the old sort, which one reads for the pleasure of reading and of learning, covering subjects with no obvious immediate cash value but of great value to those who believe in humane learning — though it also dealt well with the pressing issues of the day.

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

Education also serves to transform and refine desires, so that one does not simply seek immediate gratification of animal hungers, but gains the ability to postpone present satisfactions for the sake of more lasting benefits and to enjoy the «higher» pleasures as well as ordinary bodily delights.

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 consequenceOf 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 consequenceof 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.

In a society where virtually all property is in an immediate sense the means of subsistence rather than items of mere convenience or luxury or pleasure or whim, to steal is potentially as great a violation of human integrity as to murder or to commit adultery.

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.

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

I choose happy hour over my knee - strengthening exercises because the pleasure of beer is immediate, while the pain I'll prevent with my gym routine isn't.

Hygge is not about extravagance, but about taking pleasure in the sheer simplicity of your immediate surroundings.

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.

Rather than focusing on bullets traded and blows landed with shaky, «immediate» handheld photography, director Gore Verbinski relies on the pleasures of unexpected motion occurring within a static frame: a character falling off a train to land on an unseen horse, or our dynamic duo finding themselves swinging in circles after the chains on their hands get caught on an overhead cable, or, most famously, Tonto bridging up on a ladder in the «middle» of a fight between the Ranger and William Fichtner's Butch Kavendish.

Freud took the matter further when he described the «Id», a powerful, animalistic force buried deep in our unconscious mind that seeks immediate gratification of all needs, wants, and urges, with resultant feelings of pleasure and pain - avoidance.

It will be a pleasure to have additional well - trained analysts embedded within our organization who are able to respond to both immediate and longer - term questions,» said Carrie Conaway, Associate Commissioner for Planning, Research, and Delivery Systems at the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.

«We chose the 1.6 turbo for many reasons,» Christophe Besseau told evo at the Paris motor show, CO2 and fuel economy were two of them, but so was performance, and the driving pleasure of the immediate torque.»

«The new Clio RS offers the full spectrum of Renault Sport technology for immediate driving pleasure,» said Renault Sport CEO, Patrice Ratti.

If you've never had the pleasure of playing Secret of Mana or its immediate sequel, they still hold up very well.

At that moment of first encounter, I felt that I had shared with the artist a simultaneous experience: the making of the work, its presentation, and my viewing of it all linked up in an immediate correlation of understanding and pleasure.

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.

In this sense, it's not dissimilar to the alcohol or gambling addict that can not resist the immediate «pleasure» of satisfying her or his habit — the future consequences are discounted to the point of irrelevance in the addict's mind.

In the United States the magistrates are not elected by a particular class of citizens, but by the majority of the nation; as they are the immediate representatives of the passions of the multitude and are wholly dependent upon its pleasure, they excite neither hatred nor fear; hence, as I have already shown, very little care has been taken to limit their authority, and they are left in possession of a vast amount of arbitrary power.

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.

Seemingly, contemporary Chinese college students may be adopting a perspective of dating and intimate relationships which focuses less on paths toward marriage and more on immediate pleasure and gratification (Yang 2011).

Her evident pleasure at causing her ex-husband pain was powerful enough that she couldn't control it in the courtroom before the judge who was to make important decisions about her immediate future and later the custody of her kids.

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.