What's the difference between overindulgence and pleasure?

Overindulgence


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Unlike past clinical reports, parents here scored high in acceptance and low in overprotection and overindulgence.
  • (2) Yesterday many of us overindulged in chocolate, but Easter is not the only time we munch our way through mounds of cocoa-based treats.
  • (3) They have also let overindulgent hunters and fishermen use the land, who overtax the resources the natives depend on, Kechimov said.
  • (4) Parenting practices that may encourage tantrums include inconsistency, unreasonable expectations, excessive strictness, overprotectiveness and overindulgence.
  • (5) As the British public overindulged during the Christmas period, two Israeli ophthalmologists published a review showing that people who are clinically obese have an increased chance of eye disease.
  • (6) The parent-child interaction patterns were characterized as rejecting and both overprotective and overindulgent.
  • (7) Countertransference phenomena include being secretive, intrusive, shaming, overcontrolling, overindulgent, or overidentified.
  • (8) We have already agreed that blame game is widely spread encompassing Greenspan, gullible international governments, inadequate regulation resulting in overindulgence by the consumer and business in terms of over-borrowing," Buik said.
  • (9) The present study demonstrated that a history of ethanol overindulgence yielded elevated probe intakes for chlordiazepoxide, while a history of cocaine or water overindulgence did not.
  • (10) Or just assuage your guilt about overindulging on bad food, or not eating enough greens?
  • (11) An easy (and often overplayed) explanation is that the Irish, for so long a devoutly Catholic people, feel guilty for their overindulgence during the good years, when the Celtic tiger was roaring and they all borrowed and spent too much.
  • (12) Perhaps Shawcross's models liked to overindulge in Conor's best known dish, its Ulster Fry, and who could blame them?
  • (13) The conditions which induce the ethanol overindulgence can generate a variety of behavioral excesses which places alcoholism in a context of environmentally determined malfunctions that are subject to therapeutic change by altering situational parameters.
  • (14) Damage of the knee joint has increased during the last few years owing to overindulgence in sports.
  • (15) The man responsible for this dramatic and deeply unsettling change in Britain’s constitution was a fat, childish and overindulged English monarch called Henry VIII, who became obsessed by something we might call “control”.
  • (16) The overindulgence is elective in that ethanol is chosen in preference to certain other fluid-ingestive alternatives.
  • (17) Unfortunately, the problem often turns out to be more serious than the transient pangs emanating from overindulgence.
  • (18) Rejection, overprotectiveness and overindulgence are often found as educational attitudes in parents of handicapped children.
  • (19) In our patients the chronic overindulgence in alcohol led to an increased appearance of a pathological gastrooesophageal reflux.
  • (20) Hence, they were less vulnerable to a continuance of their ethanol overindulgence than the group with the remote history of having chosen 5% ethanol over the dilute glucose solution.

Pleasure


Definition:

  • (n.) The gratification of the senses or of the mind; agreeable sensations or emotions; the excitement, relish, or happiness produced by the expectation or the enjoyment of something good, delightful, or satisfying; -- opposed to pain, sorrow, etc.
  • (n.) Amusement; sport; diversion; self-indulgence; frivolous or dissipating enjoyment; hence, sensual gratification; -- opposed to labor, service, duty, self-denial, etc.
  • (n.) What the will dictates or prefers as gratifying or satisfying; hence, will; choice; wish; purpose.
  • (n.) That which pleases; a favor; a gratification.
  • (v. t.) To give or afford pleasure to; to please; to gratify.
  • (v. i.) To take pleasure; to seek pursue pleasure; as, to go pleasuring.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The bank tellers who saw their positions filled by male superiors took special pleasure in going to the bank and keeping them busy.
  • (2) Black males with low intentions to use condoms reported significantly more negative attitudes about the use of condoms (eg, using condoms is disgusting) and reacted with more intense anger when their partners asked about previous sexual contacts, when a partner refused sex without a condom, or when they perceived condoms as interfering with foreplay and sexual pleasure.
  • (3) Walking for pleasure was generally the most common physical activity for both sexes throughout the year.
  • (4) I like to think of Shakespeare as one delicious smorgasbord that I have a lifelong pleasure in eating.
  • (5) Saudi Arabia As one might imagine, Saudi television rather wants for the bounty we enjoy here - reality shows in which footballers' mistresses administer handjobs to barnyard animals, and all those other things which make living in the godless west such a pleasure.
  • (6) The clashes between the moralistic Levin and his friend Oblonsky, sometimes affectionate, sometimes angry, and Levin's linkage of modernity to Oblonsky's attitudes – that social mores are to be worked around and subordinated to pleasure, that families are base camps for off-base nooky – undermine one possible reading of Anna Karenina , in which Anna is a martyr in the struggle for the modern sexual freedoms that we take for granted, taken down by the hypocritical conservative elite to which she, her lover and her husband belong.
  • (7) Data from human and animal studies indicate a correlation between ictal pleasure or reinforcement and the subject's ability to induce seizures.
  • (8) I have had the awe-inducing pleasure of standing alone among the giant trees, both sequoias and redwoods, and hearing nothing but the chatter of the squirrels and the high wind in the tallest branches.
  • (9) Nondrinkers reported a greater likelihood of both positive and negative effects; heavier drinkers reported more pleasurable effects.
  • (10) A survey last year found that almost 4 million British adults never read books for pleasure , and as in Pellerin’s case, a lack of time was the dominant factor.
  • (11) We like to enjoy ourselves, if you enjoy the way you play you’ll win a lot of games.” It is a long time, and several managers, since Sunderland fans have derived any sustained pleasure from observing their team in action and sure enough, watching Allardyce’s charges was once again, a somewhat gruelling experience.
  • (12) (Like humans, they have sex for pleasure as well as for procreation.)
  • (13) But a big part of the High Line's success is its planting and landscaping, which is intelligent, imaginative and well considered, in the way it converts industrial relics into a place of urban pleasure.
  • (14) There is an enjoyment that comes with owning it, a pleasure, but also he is an astute businessman.
  • (15) He confessed to over-indulgence in this pleasure at some stages of his life, and to the recreational use of drugs.
  • (16) The opposite of a guilty pleasure: a guilty torture.
  • (17) We would have been denied the pleasure of seeing the official Tongan team anorak, for a start, and it was a bit special, wasn’t it?
  • (18) "It gives them a sense of pleasure when they believe that they've destroyed me or taken me down.
  • (19) No changes in plasma beta-endorphin or ACTH concentrations were observed with pentagastrin nor after the meal, despite the combination of very high sensory pleasure with intake of a very large amount of food.
  • (20) It was the book that turned me on to the intoxicating pleasure of theatre criticism and – well-thumbed and much borrowed from – it has stayed with me ever since.

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