pursuit of pleasure

collocation in English

meaningsofpursuitandpleasure

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pursuit
noun
uk
/pəˈsjuːt/us
/pɚˈsuːt/
an activity that you spend time doing, usually when you are ...
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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 ofpursuitandpleasurefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Sixty-eighters were not turning away from politics in thepursuitofpleasure: isolated individuals found happiness in collective action.
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Humans' goal is neither simple self-perpetuation norpursuitofpleasure.
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The drinkers mock courage by sacrificing themselves not in the path of social virtue, but in the socially uselesspursuitofpleasure.
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What lesson should we learn from the growing neglect of duty andpursuitofpleasure?
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The body is separated from spirit and purpose and is objectified for thepursuitofpleasurealone.
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Wearing extravagant outfits and playing dangerous games of desire, she deliberately avoids commitment, gripped by thepursuitofpleasurefor its own sake.
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Garland portrays this time as an era of decayed social and moral values poisoned with cynicism, greed and thepursuitofpleasure.
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Human beings are motivated solely by thepursuitofpleasureand the avoidance of pain.
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Thepursuitofpleasure, claim objectors, encourages individuals to commit unrighteous deeds, bring distress, carelessness, levity and suffering later in life.
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While thepursuitofpleasureformed the focal point of the philosophy, this was largely directed to the static pleasures of minimizing pain, anxiety and suffering.
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Surrounded by sycophantic friends, he whiles away his life inpursuitofpleasure, caring little about the huge industrial estate his father has left behind as his legacy.
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