Sentences with phrase «sheer pleasure at»

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Julie earned a Masters in English for the sheer pleasure of stories (nerd alert), served urban youth the past four years through a ministry in West Dallas, and recently joined the chaplain's office at Wheaton College as the Ministry Associate for Spiritual Care.

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.

Her blog is always inspiring me and so it was great to sit down and find out that she's also one of the sweetest, most down to earth people I've ever had the pleasure too meet and I get the feeling that if she wasn't an East Coaster -LCB- don't worry, shes's a Chicago girl at heart -RCB-, we'd be hanging out all the time.

I did laugh out loud a couple times due to the sheer devastation taking place (making what the Transformers did to the Windy City in «Dark of the Moon» look tame in comparison), but at no point is «Rampage» entertaining enough to even be considered a guilty pleasure.

The result is an existential quandary that writer - director Christopher McQuarrie negotiates with characteristic cleverness and a sly respect for the sheer durability of genre; at once questioning and reaffirming the pleasures of cinematic espionage, this is the rare sequel that leaves its franchise feeling not exhausted but surprisingly resurgent at 19 years and counting».

The script, which puts these two in at the most unusual of moments to not only provide comedy relief but also provide a look at the bigger picture, is a sheer pleasure to watch unfold.

At BMW, our whole range benefits from the innovative and groundbreaking technologies we develop at the two bookends «BMW i» and «BMW M» — with «sheer driving pleasure» always in focuAt BMW, our whole range benefits from the innovative and groundbreaking technologies we develop at the two bookends «BMW i» and «BMW M» — with «sheer driving pleasure» always in focuat the two bookends «BMW i» and «BMW M» — with «sheer driving pleasure» always in focus.

At BMW: «sheer driving pleasure» will be enhanced by digital intelligence and permanent connectivity, creating «the ultimate driver».

The result is an extremely effi cient luxury performance saloon at the same time offering unprecedented Sheer Driving Pleasure for a hybrid car.

How do you present «Sheer Driving Pleasure» at an event like the Frankfurt Motor Show?

At the same time, dedicated readers who spend a long time reading books are likely to stick to their e-readers mainly on account of the sheer reading pleasure that they get from e-readers.

Some writers write for the sheer personal pleasure, but if you want to reach a wide audience you must look at the age and interests of the readers you're targeting.

Recently, I visited my boyfriend's father's nursing home with my little dog Sophie and witnessed at first hand the sheer pleasure that contact with a pet can bring.

Sheer Pleasure — Frank Brangwyn and the Art of Japan at the William Morris Gallery promises to be a rare and exciting opportunity to view the works in the Brangwyn collection, many of which will be displayed publicly for the first time, alongside important examples of Brangwyn's own work.

Sitting in a cafe in southern France, watching the world go by and turning my face up to the sunshine, sighing happily at the sheer simple pleasure of being away from everyday life.

Working for the sheer pleasure of being alive + indomitable at that!

When we look at Remi's images today, we think about the spaces around us, whether in a gallery or a city street, and we lose ourselves in the sheer pleasure that he offers us through the geometry of colour.»

And finally, completing the shortlist of four, Angela de la Cruz who uses materials and paints on canvas, rich and complicated, a sheer pleasure to look at.

They carry great emotional weight and they are a sheer pleasure to look at,» said Hensher.

Her «Ladder Series» hints at landscape and motion while relishing the sheer pleasure of alternating bands of contrasting hues.

In «A Touch for the Now,» his profile of Walter Hopps, Tomkins wrote of the newly opened Menil, «I can think of no other museum where the sheer pleasure of looking at works of art is so subtly and consistently enhanced by the setting.»