pleasure principle

Example Sentences

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The creation is yet another example of the restaurant’s pleasure principle at work, and how apt to enjoy it while Cheryl Lynn is singing “Got to Be Real.”

From Washington Post

It won’t if we adopt a Mozartean pleasure principle that is substantive, not superficial.

From Los Angeles Times

I wanted to edit this anthology with the pleasure principle.

From Washington Post

I find myself increasingly committed to the pleasure principle — first formulated by John Dryden in 1668.

From New York Times

A friend wrote me recently that nightlife is where one discovered “the pleasure principle that has formed us all from lumps of clay”.

From The Guardian