pleasure
Example Sentences
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Now, as a flight instructor, Sintora flies in planes over and around the blimp all the time, and he hopes to one day perhaps mix business with pleasure as a pilot for the blimp.
From Los Angeles Times
It’s not a reviewer’s job to save a series from itself, but “The Copenhagen Test” provides pleasures enough to warrant an advisory: Slog through episode 1.
Researchers from Google found that models make trade-offs between stipulated pleasure and pain states, giving priority to pain avoidance over rewards in ways that suggest more than mere token prediction.
But if I could recommend one slightly underrated entry from the black-and-white set — one that rewards a rewatch, or a first watch, with uncommon pleasures — might I gently point you toward “Christmas in Connecticut”?
From Salon
If you are one of those feeling smug because you predicted this, did you take pleasure in the 4-0 defeat four years ago, or the 4-0 before that, or the 5-0 before that?
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
