pleasure

“Heart of the Beast” is an onslaught of danger and misery, alleviated only by the pleasure of watching James’ survival skills and ingenuity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

She probably gets a lot of pleasure from being able to help her son while she’s still alive.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

Aaron Howlett says he had the pleasure of meeting Sir Tom 10 years ago, and found him "incredibly humble"

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Hearing it and listening can create more room to notice when we’re depleted, sad, overwhelmed, or craving pleasure too.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026

He speared the meat with his fork, bit hungrily, and rolled his eyes heavenward in pure pleasure.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

But even then, the film feels energized by its bold mixture of pulp pleasures and weighty musings, operating with a bruising efficiency that Ali’s skilled assassin would no doubt respect.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

The many pleasures of this exuberant memoir for the landlubber include learning about the world of competitive sailing, even if the information comes with less-enjoyable updates about the author’s bowel movements.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

My husband enjoyed humble pleasures, and he had two favorite fast-casual restaurants where the food was good.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026

Touch some grass: From the archives: Ben Mathis-Lilley examines the pleasures and benefits of getting out and mowing the lawn.

From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2026

But she wasn’t here to simply enjoy the pleasures of the court.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas

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

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

The newlyweds pleasured off to Italy, where Paul, who wanted to become a concert singer, studied.

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

They went homeward presently, Estelle quietly content to have shown Raymond the flower-sprinkled strand, and he well pleased to have pleasured her.

From The Spinners by Eden Phillpotts

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

The sale of honey, cattle, etc., only occupies the morning of the first day; the afternoon, and, indeed, the night until a late hour, and the whole of the second day, being devoted to pleasuring.

From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 by Various