pleasure-loving

Jo gave her sister an encouraging pat on the shoulder as they parted for the day, each going a different way, each hugging her little warm turnover, and each trying to be cheerful in spite of wintry weather, hard work, and the unsatisfied desires of pleasure-loving youth.

Though it failed to convince her that 19th-century England’s post-Waterloo emergence as the world’s most powerful nation had much to do with its “capricious and pleasure-loving ruler,” our reviewer, Miranda Seymour, nonetheless found this “wide-ranging” account of the Prince Regent’s reign “elegant, entertaining and frequently surprising.”

Although elegant, entertaining and frequently surprising, “The Regency Years” nevertheless failed to convince this reader that 19th-century England’s post-Waterloo emergence as the world’s most powerful nation had much to do with its capricious and pleasure-loving ruler.

When the cosmopolitan, pleasure-loving Charles assumed the throne in 1660, kicking off the Restoration, he not only reopened the theaters; he also allowed women to perform on the nation’s professional stages for the first time.

Given the amount of cash queer audiences are likely to pony up to escape the summer heat in this pleasure-loving, sex-positive, Cher-starring Ramos gin fizz of a movie, it seems like the least the writer-director could have done to provide Harry with his own fair share of island lovin’.