This might be explained more at large and more clearly: I mean by distinguishing riches according as they are pursued for their own sake, in or furtherance of fame, or sensual pleasure, or the advancement of science and art.
Lastly, are innumerable cases of men, who have hastened their death through over-indulgence in sensual pleasure.
It is a coarser rendering of that bluntest of all Shakespearean plays, Measure for Measure; its sole subject is the pursuit of sensual pleasure, in which all indulge, and the ridiculing of those who appear to yearn for something higher.
The cord is emblematical of self-control; and hence the leopard seems best to answer the idea of sensual pleasure in the sense of a temptation that makes difficult the pursuit of virtue.
Like him he was endowed with great personal charm, and was enamoured of all that opened new regions to intellectual curiosity or gave refinement to sensual pleasure.
The unhypocritical, honest acknowledgment of sensual life is the acknowledgment of sensual pleasure.
What a sorry state of servitude for a virtue--to be pandering to sensual pleasure!
For neither goodness nor generosity nor courtesy can exist, any more than friendship can, if they are not sought of and for themselves, but are cultivated only for the sake of sensual pleasure or personal advantage.
Sensual, inordinate self-love it destroyeth; both as it consisteth in the inordinate love of sensual pleasure, and in the inordinate love of self or life.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sensual pleasure" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
