simple pleasure
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsimpleandpleasure
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simple
adjective
uk/ˈsɪm.pəl/us/ˈsɪm.pəl/
easy to understand or do; ...
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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 ofsimpleandpleasurefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofsimple pleasure
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Yet even his readings of plays show some signs of a motive beyondsimplepleasure.
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As well as providingsimplepleasure, these springs were also a focus for religious devotion.
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Much of this derived fromsimplepleasurein the act of singing and in the wider sense of social communion it brought about.
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It would give a great deal ofsimplepleasureto a lot of simple people if he could say so.
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Amateur astronomers make a much bigger contribution than their ownsimplepleasure.
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We should not make it more difficult for them to enjoy thesimplepleasureof seeing sport and documentary travel features on television.
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Beer is asimplepleasurefor the mass of people and it should not be taxed as highly as it is.
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The more elaborate beings tend to spend more thought on other matters and hence lessen the time forsimplepleasure.
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One takes, instead, a frank andsimplepleasurein the picture.
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Incense is used for a variety of purposes, including the ceremonies of all the main religions, to overcome bad smells, repel insects, spirituality, aromatherapy, meditation, and forsimplepleasure.
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He saw them as primarily realistic and human, and chiefly concerned with mans conflict with the forces of nature and hissimplepleasurein being alive.
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A villa resuscitates our imagination through the simple pleasures of walking and talking.
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He celebrated elemental things, the time spent playing in the fields or woods, thesimplepleasureof unhurried living, the playing of games in interior spaces.
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I suggest that this 13il1 is a really fair compromise between unrestricted licence and a puritanical renunciation of simple pleasures.
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When they have paid their electric, water and gas bills, they find that they have nothing left for the simple pleasures of life.
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There is room for considerable doubt whether to curtail people's simple pleasures under peacetime conditions will result in their working harder.
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This sterile, scientific and mechanical age has robbed mankind of so many of the good, clean, simple pleasures of life.
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All our simple pleasures are taxed and this tax would be no harder to bear than some others.
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She influences the narrators desire to share in the unadulterated and simple pleasures that childhood can bring.
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Some artists created a niche and then stuck with it, such as in drawing comical situations, political satire, simple pleasures, domestic follies or pretty women.
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