physical pleasure
Example Sentences
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The things people value in life—for example, a just society, good health, beautiful art, physical pleasure, and supportive friendships—contribute to their well-being.
From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022
Bouzid makes the case that before religious restrictions maligned hedonism, Arab art and philosophy advocated for physical pleasure.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2022
“A human being likes to ‘withdraw into his corner,’ and it gives him physical pleasure to do so,” Gaston Bachelard notes in his landmark philosophical text on the home.
From Salon • Jul. 15, 2017
Exercise — which the doctor recommended, to slow the onset — became a mission, an act of defiance and a source of physical pleasure.
From New York Times • May 11, 2017
Between life and death, and between physical pleasure and physical pain, there is still a distinction, but that is all.
From "1984" by George Orwell
