Sentences with phrase «taking pleasure at»

Is your refusal to use the reply button and starting new threads a personal quirk, or are you the type that has to over-control every situation to the point of personal enjoyment for yourself and taking pleasure at

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When AMC began work on a massive 24 - screen multiplex at Walt Disney World Resort's Pleasure Island in 1997 — now renamed Disney Springs — the park had one stipulation: If AMC wanted the 24 screens, it also had to take on the existing two - screen theater in Celebration.

Take time to read books for pleasure, not just for work, and while you're at it, do some writing, too.

Others take pleasure in avoiding the crowds at all costs and shop exclusively online (hello, free shipping!).

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I'm cooped up in my house working from 6 am — 10 am every morning, so it's a pleasure when real human beings reach out to see if I can take a look at a problem.

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And then to take pleasure in slinging it at others should be beneath your dignity as a human being.

Suppose, in a kind of contented abstinence, we were to refrain from trying to understand more of the landscape before us than the landscape cared to display for us, that we were willing to follow the bend of bough and straggle of gravel and tilt of pole wherever the bend and the straggle and the tilt chanced to take us, that we concerned ourselves not with pattern or profit or even pleasure but merely with watching like a token sentinel in safe country, that we gave our eyes a quiet carte blanche and permitted our minds to play at liberty over the face of an untouched terrain?

i don't think someone who would lay down his own life for us (in a horrible way as one of the worst criminals at that) would take pleasure in other's suffering.

Mornings in Bodley, drowsing among the worn browns and tarnished gilding of Duke Humphrey, snuffing the faint, musty odor of slowly perishing leather...; long afternoons, taking an outrigger up the Cher, feeling the rough kiss of the sculls on unaccustomed palms, listening to the rhythmical and satisfying kerklunk of the rowlocks, watching the play of muscles on the Bursar's sturdy shoulders at stroke, as the sharp spring wind flattened the thin silk shirt against them; or, if the day were warmer, flicking swiftly in a canoe under Magdalen walls and so by the twisting race at King's Mill by Mesopotamia to Parson's Pleasure; then back, with mind relaxed and body stretched and vigorous, to make toast by the fire.

Never, though, have I taken so much pleasure from a spelling exception as the sign at a local health food store.

Intellectuals moved in circles of their own, fleeing at night to the rooftops of the city where they would take part in a never - ending Walpurgisnacht of forbidden pleasures.

There are all sorts of reasons one might want to condemn such behavior, which represented at least one common pattern of male homosexual behavior Paul would have encountered in his culture — that it involved young boys, that it was not a matter of mutual pleasure, that it was a way of expressing one partner's superiority over the other, and soon — while perhaps not condemning some of the different forms homosexual activity takes in our culture.

It does not take anything at all away from the meaning of the Cross to say that the victory of Christ and of his people through the ages is not simply a reward which is given at the «good pleasure» of the Father.

Of course, as I have stated so many times before, I am under no delusion that fishon, and now you, or anyone who seems to take great pleasure in pointing out the «error» in the beliefs of others, cares at all how much impact their attitude plays in the debate.

For example, as the disciples from outside the text, in contrast to the disciples inside the text, we learn from the narrator of Mark's Gospel the words the heavenly voice spoke to Jesus as the Spirit descended into him at his baptism, «You are my beloved Son; in you I began to take pleasure.»

One of More's colleagues, a Swedish philosopher named Nick Bostrom, took to the podium at the same conference to predict «orgasms and aesthetic - contemplative pleasures whose blissfulness vastly exceeds what any human has yet experienced,» as well as «love that is stronger, purer and more secure than any human has yet harbored» and «values that will strike us as being of a far higher order than those we can realize as unenhanced biological humans.»

Most of the congregation, instead of reacting with outrage at his denunciations, took perverse pleasure in them.

I took some pleasure in watching the students agree (at times) with the definitions from people with whom they disagree.

Taking my time and enjoying the process is one of the pleasures of making my own bread at home.

I was at we took a pleasure trip to a s mega rejuvenation health clinic two weeks and the doctor asked me my birth date twice to make sure that I was not 25 I'm 45 and he was stunned since he see women all day long, from all over the world.

Its not very often that you find a sweet treat that is actually good for you... take a look at the ingredients and you'll see that not all pleasures are guilty ones...

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Sunday, Oct. 7 Choose between a Four - Course Brunch & Champagne Tasting at L'Atelier de Joel Robuchon or Jasmine Dreams of Dim Sum & Champagne at Bellagio · Take pleasure in a four - course gourmet brunch prepared by Executive Chefs Claude Le - Tohic and Steve Benjamin at L'Atelier de Joel Robuchon inside MGM Grand.

Our Research and Development Team at Gold Coast Ingredients takes pleasure in experimenting with flavors in protein beverages, supplements, nutrition bars, energy drinks, vitamins and more.

What the tv cameras took great pleasure in showing at the outset was not how the stadium looked 15 minutes later.

He takes a masochistic pleasure in skidding across the floor for loose balls, and he received three ovations within a minute during the Creighton game by blocking a shot, springing for a rebound, then canning his jumper at the other end.

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.

If the likes of Walcott, Diaby, Ramsey, Gervinho, Gibbs / santos giroud, Podolski play at the top of there game I really think we can challenge city, united etc. nothing would give me greater pleasure than to see Rvps face if Arsenal took the title

Everybody's opinion is important, that is why there are forums.To have a go at manager and team for poor performances is one thing, to make it personal and take pleasure in demeaning the host proves to me that you should seek some form of help and go to a more suitable site.

Dear Abby: On a recent trip to Ireland, I had the pleasure of staying at a hotel in Galway where a wedding reception was taking place.

In that moment I vowed that even if I never loved breastfeeding I would focus on how much I love my daughter while she's at my breast and I could take pleasure in how much she enjoyed breastfeeding even if I didn't personally enjoy it.

We take great pleasure in the close - knit community we have at NPN, and we'd be happy to welcome you in.

It's a pleasure taking these off at the end of the day.

I so want to have some schedule with her but it is impossible to make one: (The only thing she takes with pleasure and at anytime is my breast.

The Scotsman is «on a suicide mission»; he takes «considerable pleasure» in phoning The Times editor John Witherow to chastise its «anti-Scottish bias»; he's incredulous when the Sunday Post splashes on his hotel expenses («it would be possible to meet company CEOs or international dignitaries at the local Holiday Inn, but I'm not sure how well that would work for Scotland's benefit») and records with relish his attempt to offer a young Telegraph journalist «a packet of liquorice allsorts for good attendance at every press event».

He is a model of civic engagement he has done a great job at the university and it is a pleasure to have him and we thank him for taking the time to take on this important obligation.

The fine print also says the governor will not take money from a state agency officer, an employee who serves at the pleasure of the governor or other members of public authorities or other boards appointed by the governor.

«It is my great pleasure and honour to be taking charge at the Sun,» he said.

In the pre-election period the Maude agenda to radically reshape Whitehall promised much - but it has taken almost half this Parliament to gain traction with its basic idea - that elected politicians should be running the show and civil servants are there to work at the pleasure of the administration they «serve»

«Dopamine release is also responsible for people becoming addicted, in that they are always seeking pleasure, so that they can reach higher and higher dopamine levels,» explains Harald Sitte of MedUni Vienna's Institute of Pharmacology, speaking on the occasion of the Dopamine 2016 conference, which is taking place next week on the Vienna University campus and at MedUni Vienna's Center for Brain Research.

They marveled at the whales that breached alongside their boat, and they took pleasure in the beautiful sunsets.

Despite the great pleasure I took in chemistry, I decided not to undertake a Ph.D., which, at that time, was a precondition for a job in research.

«It takes the playful pleasure of spatial navigation that people are familiar with from games, with the same kinds of controls and feedback, and applies it to the exploration of information about games,» said Noah Wardrip - Fruin, professor of computational media at UC Santa Cruz.

All it took was a short, prompt e-mail in which I expressed my pleasure at the encounter, referred to a specific point from the discussion, and thanked her or him for chatting.

It embodies all things cozy, intimate, and the act of taking pleasure from simple things such as a hot bath at night, sipping warm tea under a fuzzy blanket, or enjoying a homecooked meal with loved ones.

With you in control of the action, you can take your time enjoying G - spot pleasure and work your way to an O at your own speed.

We place so much importance on «getting things done» — that we forget the simple (stress - free) pleasures in life like, reading a book, taking a walk at the beach (or park) and just being kind to another human being.

I do my best at practicing what I preach: taking care of, myself to the best of my ability while not excluding life's little pleasures (like dark chocolate!).