pleasure

“Dine N’ Dash,” “Going to Babble On,” “Lonely in the Future” — it’s pure pleasure to hear the guitars in these songs slashing away over a rhythm section as crisp and nimble as this one.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026

Additional experiments showed that activation of the central amygdala reduced dopamine release in important parts of the brain's reward system while the mice were eating for pleasure.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 25, 2026

This detail matters because it collapses the false divide between pleasure and care.

From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026

"They've been an absolute pleasure to play in front of for these two days. I love that I played some good golf there and something to cheer about," said the European Ryder Cup star.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

“The pleasure is mine, woof!” she said, in her piping voice.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood

Mostly cheap, guilty pleasures, from coasters to Christmas ornaments to, yes, shelves of Starbucks mugs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

Skip the next two paragraphs if you want to hold onto the film’s purest pleasures.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026

In other moments, she emphasises simple pleasures, writing of the "joy found in ordinary things" and "the everyday magic of life itself".

From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026

As the World Cup landed in the U.S. for the first time in three decades, international soccer fans have been acquainting themselves with the distinctly American pleasures of barbecue, highway traffic jams and Texas summers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026

But these he did not learn from them, these child-like pleasures and follies; he only learned the unpleasant things from them which he despised.

From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse

Mayor Bill de Blasio let out a pleasured tweet of thanks, saluting the State Senate’s co-leaders, the Democrat Klein and that noted progressive, the Republican Dean Skelos.

From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2014

Last week he pleasured newshawks by presenting his weekly press conference with two enormous South Carolina melons, 3 ft. long and weighing, by report, 80 Ib. each.

From Time Magazine Archive

Schoolma'am Marie Campbell, who put together this book, was pleasured a heap to sit alistening to the olden tales and to write them down so they would keep.

From Time Magazine Archive

There the exiled King has pleasured himself with poker, backgammon, golf, visits to the El Patio nightclub, and a social whirl with some of the fastest climbers in Mexico.

From Time Magazine Archive

She would have laid her head beneath Alex Elder’s feet, if it would have pleasured him; and you are none behind her.

From The Orphans of Glen Elder by Robertson, Margaret M. (Margaret Murray)

The act set Yellowstone aside as “a pleasuring ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people.”

From Washington Post ● Feb. 25, 2022

"Heartbroken at the passing of Bert — a talented, kind young man who I had the pleasuring of working with numerous times on #LetsStayTogether," she tweeted.

From Fox News ● Nov. 9, 2020

They videotaped one year’s pleasuring, he says, and “one pig caught its hoof in a grate and had a little drop of blood on its hoof.”

From New York Times ● Jan. 6, 2011

In that year Congress designated a vast area in what are now the states of Idaho, Montana and Wyoming as a public "pleasuring ground."

From Time Magazine Archive

Marry, but he be over late, an' the jugged hare I made ready for his pleasuring is fair wasted.

From A Maid of Many Moods by Sheard, Virna