Sentences with phrase «than pleasure»

The apps aren't smart enough to know that the new versions have changes to the content inside the ebooks or that the ebooks in question are there for business rather than pleasure.

As any sleep - deprived new mother knows, cooking can become more of a dangerous chore than a pleasure in the months following the birth of a child.

Make an appointment to talk with your veterinarian when your pet can not respond to you in the usual ways, or seems to have more pain than pleasure on a daily basis.

I receive no compensation other than the pleasure of seeing more children gain access to this excellent curriculum.

Many women often feel like failures and feel less close to their partners; for many men, the fertility process can turn sex into anything other than pleasure.

Still, watching them at work is never less than a pleasure.

We take more pain from loss than pleasure from gain.

It's hard to forget the times sex was more a path of frustration than pleasure, when I was still figuring out how my body responded and why it often didn't.

Experts in behavioral finance say that we get far more pain from losses than pleasure from gains.

That loss aversion — our tendency to feel more pain with losing than pleasure with winning — might prompt us to cut and run during a market down day.

I say «modified» because strength of beauty is certainly a much more complex notion than pleasure.

Life is so busy that staying on trend can be more of a chore than a pleasure sometimes.

They feel the pain of loss more strongly than the pleasure of gains, and so don't invest.

There is nothing I could have ever wanted or needed that would have given me more joy as a child than the pleasure of having a pet.

We tend to feel the pain of loss more intensely than the pleasure of gain.

If intercourse is proving to be more pain than pleasure, there are other ways for you to both get sexual satisfaction.

Shopping with baby can be more of a chore than a pleasure.

Thus, if a ranking is not based on the amounts of pleasure present in two experiences, it must be based on something other than pleasure.

Asceticism, we are told, is the idea that it can be good to forgo pleasure of any kind for reasons other than achieving an even greater pleasure or avoiding a pain that is even greater than the pleasure given up.

Bringing home a new puppy can be an exciting time for its new family, but sometimes if the puppy is not researched properly ahead of time it can end up causing more trouble than pleasure.

I thought it would be little more than a pleasure read, a short break before I got into the serious stuff, but soon I found that my expectations, and my reading habits, were being re-written.

The main presuppositions about sentiment which behavioural finance are starting to confirm are mainly that 1) investors overemphasise the significance of fundamental data to the detriment of other equally important but more overlooked data that still can have an effect on a share's price 2) investors take losses a lot worse than the pleasure of making a winning trade and 3) investors continue in the mistakes they make with regard to bad methodology and repeating mistakes based upon emotion.

Seasoned and well - informed interpreters of the world's cultures should be employed to make of foreign travel something more significant than a pleasure tour, and persons who travel abroad should be encouraged to regard themselves as responsible representatives of their country to other nations and to behave accordingly.

job, establishing a new life here in London, time was much harder to come by than it used to be in my master's days and subsequently blogging became more of a chore and a pressure than a pleasure.

At the same time, endless others around the world repeatedly make mistakes when it comes to their protein - based products and food innovations: dry protein cakes, nasty protein brownies, bars that feel more like punishment than pleasure — the list goes on and on.

It would be deceptive, they reasoned, to coax consumers into eating a shark's fin soup devoid of its central ingredient... Since the central premise behind shark's fin soup rests on the act of killing the shark itself, rather than the pleasure in eating it, there's no way to save the animal and still preserve the value of its namesake dish.»

To say that Congress may withdraw or ignore that pledge is to assume that the Constitution contemplates a vain promise, a pledge having no other sanction than the pleasure and convenience of the pledgor.

It's no wonder then that the Ysmay Peasant Blouse ($ 78) gets a mention, More out of necessity than pleasure.

Dispatching baddies here feels more like anger than pleasure, like swatting a mosquito that has been buzzing around too long and too loudly.

Pain stimuli and its consequences are more immediate than pleasure stimuli.

White's introduction so perfectly acknowledges how futile it is to write about this town, noting that to «bring New York down to date, a man would have to be published with the speed of light... it is the reader's, not the author's, duty to bring New York down to date; and I trust it will prove less a duty than a pleasure.»

First up under the metaphorical Microsoft is Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, which, and I'm just going to be straight here, is easily the weakest of the three titles, at times feeling closer to a chore to play than a pleasure, thereby tarnishing many of my fond memories of it.

In a world where job security is scarcer than pleasure yachts day - cruising off the coast of Somalia, finding a fraudster who had the good sense to save some coin for his lawyer can prove difficult to say the least.

If you are with someone who does not excite you the way he used to, or who causes you more stress than pleasure, you may feel there is little hope for your relationship.

Other couples report that their sex life becomes more like work rather than pleasure as they start thinking more about biology and procreation rather than romance and passion.

It is more profitable and far easier to focus on the right clients, the ones who are specific about their needs, wants and have the financial where - with - all rather than pleasure tripping and pitching everyone who walks through the door.

Whether they major in the field or take a course or two, students have found that informed visual thinking, no less than the pleasure of aesthetic experience, continues to enrich their lives and their work.

For too many of us, that sense of hunger is going unfulfilled — and instead of feeling nourished by sex, it feels more like a chore than a pleasure.

I feel that the religious excitement that is supposed to come to people who meditate on the flame of a single dark candle in an otherwise dark room was no greater than the pleasure I felt when I looked down a gun - sight and become very close to my own mind and consciousness.

Heroine Anthem ZERO is a stunning game that has lots of great qualities about it and gets you interested from the get - go of its adventure thanks to its captivating art and score that caresses your ears and eyes and makes you feel warm all around, and while the adventure at its core is a delight, the mechanics and gameplay of Heroine Anthem ZERO unfortunately diminish the experience and ultimately leaves more frustration than pleasure.

An owner may think that bestowing the name of «Last Dollar» is a humorous way to reflect how much money has been invested in the boat; however, those who believe in this superstition would say that the boat will ultimately be more trouble than pleasure.

Although there is a psychological difference between ordering a steak for dinner and deriving pleasure from watching dogs fight, once we realize that that the torture and death of the animals we eat can not be justified by anything other than pleasure or convenience, the psychological difference can have no moral significance.

Ebook sites are still mostly focused on the issues related to technology rather than pleasures of reading.

This is generally easier to do if more days are spent on business than pleasure).

Not any more: the dynamics of modernization, accompanied by a growing secularism, have produced a new breed of Americans, epitomized by Ivan Boesky and Michael Milken, who «have no transcendent values, and no goal other than pleasure or work for work's sake.»