Pleasure in a sentence as a noun

When the game came out, I initially loved it; just an absolute pleasure to play.

I had the pleasure of helping to build and manage these facilities, both hardware and software, for 5 years.

People will seek to maximise happiness and pleasure under given constraints.

I can't speak for Windows because I have had the pleasure of not using it for anything other than games for the past several years.

" I neither ridiculed nor made fun of Grid, as you claim I did; however, you seem to take pleasure in ridiculing and making fun of me. I'm sorry that I didn't heap the app with praise -- from the video I saw, it does look like an impressive beginning.

I also had the pleasure of interacting with BetaPunch's Twitter account a while back: they posted several tweets advertising that they were doing user testing for our service.

Since I had grown up hacking on my Apple ][+ and kinda idolizing him, it was both a pleasure and a relief to learn that he was just as swell to everybody as you'd expect him to be.

Meanwhile, the people who genuinely need the library don't need it to take books out; lending out books is a service that disproportionately helps people with the leisure time to develop a taste for reading books for pleasure.

The point of art is, depending on your philosophy, variously to improve the mind or the spirit or to provide aesthetic pleasure; it's not to satisfy the intellectual pretentions of art nerds.

Unskilled and unexperienced college graduates with big egos raise dumb money, hire programmers to build code they don't understand, then spend their days 'networking' at trendy hotels in down-town, throwing minimal techno parties and going on trips across Europe for 'business and pleasure'.

If software is useful, and I build something that makes developing software easier/faster/cheaper/better, why should I be criticized for wasting my time while the guy who uses my stuff to build something else easier/faster/cheaper/better gets lauded?To me, this is like praising a farmer for feeding the world while criticizing the company who builds his tractors for indulging in self-pleasure.

I have put all of my creative energy into creating video games, and though I may never make a hit game or be a great musician or a scientist, these things are giving me exponentially more pleasure than working a full time job, spending 8 to 10 hours a day with people I don't love, playing office politics, supporting a platform I don't care about and just waiting for the weekend so I can sleep.

But sometimes one is dominant, and if the gray beast gets its teeth all the way into you, it takes away not just positive feelings but everything until you're just a walking shell so empty you can't even fully comprehend what you've lost.> The converse, when the black beast has you, can be much like you describe - you can still feel a kind of dreadful, frenzied joy in short moments as you cling desperately to the edge of the sucking dark hole in yourself, trying to ignore the beast's whispers that any pleasure is a lie that will just make the coming pain more stark and inescapable and utterly deserved.> They're liars, but they're good at it.

Pleasure definitions

noun

a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience; "he was tingling with pleasure"

See also: pleasance

noun

something or someone that provides a source of happiness; "a joy to behold"; "the pleasure of his company"; "the new car is a delight"

See also: delight

noun

a formal expression; "he serves at the pleasure of the President"

noun

an activity that affords enjoyment; "he puts duty before pleasure"

noun

sexual gratification; "he took his pleasure of her"