pleasure
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This detail matters because it collapses the false divide between pleasure and care.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
Another, recently retired, signed up for ballroom-dancing classes at a community center and came back transformed, by the music, the other dancers and the pleasure of learning something new.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
The family was on a pleasure flight over Manhattan, described by the operator as the "ultimate sightseeing tour of New York City."
From Barron's ● Jul. 16, 2026
“It’s for me, and the moment, and the pleasure of creating.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
As we walked away, Winky shouted, “Always a pleasure doing business with you, Beans!”
From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm
Skip the next two paragraphs if you want to hold onto the film’s purest pleasures.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
But do you have to be rich to enjoy the island’s pleasures?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 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
This list leaves plenty room for drink breaks and requests before winding down to some near-universal pleasures.
From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2026
The quarter was so jubilant over the tiny pleasures they scavenged together on Randall.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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
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
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
Take for our lady’s loyal sake This vagrant tale of mine, Where Cavalier and Roundhead break A reed for Right Divine, A tale it pleasured me to make, And most to make it thine.
From The Lady of Loyalty House A Novel by McCarthy, Justin H. (Justin Huntly)
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
"It is time there was a sterner hand at the helm, and not so much pleasuring."
From A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia by Douglas, Amanda Minnie
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