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Example sentences for: pleasure

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Although, indeed, against these last, notwithstanding the laughter they might excite (of which spark of pleasure the writer will only be too glad to be the cause), farwrittle and farspeakle for telegraph and telephone may have as much, if not more, to recommend them, as they have or any before them.
The real problem with the NYTBR , for the 15 years or so that I have been reading it without much pleasure, is its aversion to argument and controversy.
And since the pleasure derived from smoking marijuana is a core issue, consider a third point: Rats don't like pot.
Now comes Slate reader (and occasional writer--see his dispatches on "My Life as a Nielsen Family") Randy Cohen with the following from Dr. Johnson: "I allow you may have pleasure from writing, after it is over, if you have written well; but you don't go willingly to it again."
An article surveys changing attitudes toward female sexual pleasure, from St. Thomas Aquinas' 13 th -century allegation that "woman is defective and misbegotten" to a 1995 study suggesting that orgasms may be linked to fertility.