sensual pleasure
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsensualandpleasure
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sensual
adjective
uk/ˈsen.sju.əl/us/ˈsen.sju.əl/
expressing or suggesting physical, especially sexual, pleasure ...
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pleasure
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈpleʒ.ər/us/ˈpleʒ.ɚ/
enjoyment, happiness, or satisfaction, or something that ...
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(Definition ofsensualandpleasurefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofsensual pleasure
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Obviously, gaining moresensualpleasurewhen one already has plenty may sometimes interfere with the pursuit of other goods.
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Sensualpleasureand thought thus fuse in the pensiveness of delight as the moon simultaneously usurps the sun's radiating power.
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Second, there is a captivating quality to thesensualpleasureafforded the listener by the technical excellence and gloss of the production techniques.
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First, consider a case in which we must choose between a life of freedom and critical reflection and a life of meresensualpleasure.
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He was bound to his responsibility and knew he would fulfil it, but allowed himself the unbearablysensualpleasureof the song.
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In the first individuals live lives of continuous mildsensualpleasurefor 100 years each.
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One did not seek pain in order to derivesensualpleasurefrom it.
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It is unusual for us to overdose onsensualpleasure, but not in such a way that more would be unpleasant.
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The list of goods mentioned earlier (material enhancement,sensualpleasure, goal-fulfillment, nonessential knowledge, competitive advantage) seems roughly right.
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Today, whilst the clothes may have changed, dance with its link tosensualpleasurecontinues to be fundamental to our cultures.
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In their death, we seek nosensualpleasure.
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Would he get moresensualpleasureout of it, more intellectual uplift, if he paid a fee for doing so?
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He is the support of all beings and is beyondsensualpleasure.
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Contemplating death drives away the desire forsensualpleasureand evil thoughts and stops acts of injustice.
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The pursuit of sensual pleasures was not to contravene the proper exercise of dharma.
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One would place either no value or only instrumental value on involuntary sensual pleasures such as the warmth from a fire on a cold day.
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When the jiva becomes distracted by the fruits (signifyingsensualpleasure), she momentarily forgets her lord and lover and tries to enjoy the fruit independently of him.
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We have seen that there were, according to the policy manuals, good reasons for the noble man to avoid attachment to sensual pleasures.
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The main aim of giving up materialistic world is to withdraw oneself from sensual pleasures (as they are fake and temporary in some religions).
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