Esthetology, or the Science of Activities Designed to Give Pleasure (Powell) 19: LV.
Esthetology, or the Science of Activities designed to give Pleasure 19: LV.
Esthetology, or the Science of Activities Designed to Give Pleasure.
And yet most persons say that the merit of music is to give pleasure.
And yet most persons say, that the excellence of music is to give pleasure to our souls.
Wherefore she begged her daughter to array herself one day most gorgeously in the fine and superb apparel that she wore at Court for great and magnificent pomps and festivals, in order to give pleasure to these worthy dames.
The ethical theory which finds the explanation and authority of duty in its tendency to give pleasure.
To give pleasure to; to excite agreeable sensations or emotions in; to make glad; to gratify; to content; to satisfy.
To excite or cause to exist, as a sensation; as, to give offense; to give pleasure or pain.
Sophy is not so fortunate as to be a charming French woman, cold-hearted and vain, who would rather attract attention than give pleasure, who seeks amusement rather than delight.
EMILE By Jean-Jacques Rousseau Translated by Barbara Foxley Author's Preface This collection of scattered thoughts and observations has little order or continuity; it was begun to give pleasure to a good mother who thinks for herself.
His heart is tender and sensitive, but he cares nothing for the weight of popular opinion, though he loves to give pleasure to others; so he will care little to be thought a person of importance.
She thanked her son for his loving attention, so contrary to his usual habits of economy, and therefore so much the more a proof of his earnest desire to give pleasure to his mother.
Hitherto every one has been kind to me because of my misfortune; but when I stand upon equal footing with other women, do you think that I am pretty enough to give pleasure to my friends?
It is just as easy to be kind as to be cross, and as easy to give pleasure as pain.
Only a few can sing well enough to give pleasure to others, but we all talk every day of our lives, and often the quality of our voice speaks more significantly than the words we utter.
Next, he had a theory (a strange theory in view of his mood) that the only object of poetry is to give pleasure, and that the pleasure of a poem depends largely on melody, on sound rather than on sense.
The purpose of an artist, you say, is to give pleasure, not to preach.
In one place it said the theatre is not a place for amusement and in another the theatre does not "merely" exist to give pleasure, therefore it did exist to give pleasure--to a certain extent.
Paragraph 2 helped him to while away a quarter of an hour in meditation on the text: "The theatre is not a place for amusement; it does not merely exist to give pleasure.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "give pleasure" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
