(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.
Sanguine
Definition:
(a.) Having the color of blood; red.
(a.) Characterized by abundance and active circulation of blood; as, a sanguine bodily temperament.
(a.) Warm; ardent; as, a sanguine temper.
(a.) Anticipating the best; not desponding; confident; full of hope; as, sanguine of success.
(n.) Blood color; red.
(n.) Anything of a blood-red color, as cloth.
(n.) Bloodstone.
(n.) Red crayon. See the Note under Crayon, 1.
(v. t.) To stain with blood; to impart the color of blood to; to ensanguine.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Rt Rev Stephen Lowe, the Bishop of Hulme, who speaks for the Anglican church on urban life and faith, is less sanguine.
(2) Ministers are sanguine, expecting the controversy to die down once the bill becomes law, even if they are concerned at the way in which the rightwing commentariat has lined up against the bill.
(3) The article points out the possibilities and limitations of combining a) ascending phlebography of the leg and pelvis with peripheral venous pressure measurement (phlebodynamometry) and b) visualisation of the veins of the pelvis and vena cava inferior with central sanguinous venous pressure measurement (CP).
(4) Davis is sanguine about her occasionally fraught on-set encounters: "It's always an act of faith.
(5) Trade ministers, much lower down the pecking order, are more sanguine.
(6) The horses had stertorous breathing (n = 4) or intermittently sanguineous nasal discharge (n = 7).
(7) The initially sanguine expectations regarding the practical use of recombinant DNA research, for instance in the production of biologically important substances by bacteria, will therefore possibly not be realized at short notice.
(8) The sera from 2.028 blood donors were screened by all those techniques, as well as 105 known sera, used as references (87 HBS antigen positive sera with different titers, 18 HBS antigen negative sera) and coming from 4 origins: NIH-Bethesda, Centre National de Transfusion Sanguine, Paris; Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris; Hôpital Broussais, Paris.
(9) Fellow goalkeeper Tim Howard chimed in after the first US practice on the field to note that the grass comes in trays and that it “kind of jells together” to create “spots on the field that may tear up easily.” Clint Dempsey was fairly sanguine though — noting that while the ball may not bounce as much on this surface, that with the field being watered well “the ball will be moving quickly —which is important — and rolling true.” Let’s hope that the turf becomes a footnote in the game.
(10) In conditions of conflict between probability and value of reinforcement the dogs manifested two opposite strategies of behaviour: orientation to highly probable events (choleric and phlegmatic) and to low-probable events (sanguinic and melancholic) what is connected with individual properties of functioning and the character of interaction of four brain structures (frontal cortex, hippocampus, hypothalamus, amygdala).
(11) Cooze and the trust’s chairman, Phil Sumbler, say they knew the other shareholders would sell at some point and are sanguine about them making so much money.
(12) We need to keep cool heads as the market heats up.” Carney has been less sanguine over the state of Britain’s economy and earlier this week sent clear hints to financial markets that interest rates would be held at their record low of 0.5% for many months to come against the backdrop of a weaker world economy and a slowdown in the UK.
(13) Weaknesses are being exploited by firms to reduce their tax burdens.” While the proposed new rules could run into opposition from national EU governments that have to endorse the package, Moscovici sounded sanguine that there would be quick approval, enabling the mandatory and automatic exchange of information on tax rulings to come into effect by the end of next year.
(14) David can afford to be sanguine about his brother's choice of career, however, because he remains the more senior figure after making Question Time his own.
(15) Outside Byzantium Café, Saki, who is 72 and remembers the declaration of Cypriot independence ("You British knew what was going to happen"), is relatively sanguine.
(16) Although he couldn’t be described as sanguine about the reality of representing himself – “I get minor panic attacks just being in the same room as my ex” – he does believe it’s possible to do a decent job on your own behalf in court.
(17) The result is that, once again, the US and Britain have persuaded themselves of an ambitious course of action – weakening or even breaking the Putin-Assad link – the results of which other allies are less sanguine about.
(18) Personally I thought the Gomez take (cited in an mlssoccer.com story ) was about the most sanguine on it: I love it – I love it.
(19) Watery, serous, serosanguineous, and sanguineous discharges are surgically significant; while they are most often caused by intraductal papillomas or fibrocystic disease, they can be due to cancer or a precancerous mastopathy.
(20) Matthew Taylor, the former chief adviser on strategy to Tony Blair, is more sanguine about the chances of making the pitch "Brown in adversity".