noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a pleasure boat (= a small boat that people use on a lake, river etc )
a thrill of excitement/anticipation/pleasure
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As the plane took off, she felt a thrill of excitement.
alight with excitement/pleasure/laughter etc
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Jed’s face was alight with excitement.
be a sight/joy/pleasure etc to behold
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The beauty of the garden was a pleasure to behold.
bring sb pleasure/joy/pain/grief etc
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The decision brought him great relief.
combine business with pleasure (= work and enjoy yourself at the same time )
derive pleasure/enjoyment etc
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Many students derived enormous satisfaction from the course.
get pleasure from/out of sth
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She gets a lot of pleasure from her garden.
intense pleasure
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Anne read the letter with intense pleasure.
It gives me great pleasure (= I am very pleased )
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It gives me great pleasure to introduce tonight’s speaker.
mix business with pleasure (= combine business and social activities at the same time )
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I don’t like to mix business with pleasure .
pleasure boat
pleasure seeker
pure joy/pleasure/delight
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Lucinda flashed him a smile of pure joy.
sadistic pleasure
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He took sadistic pleasure in humiliating her.
sensual pleasure
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the sensual pleasure of good food
take delight/pleasure/pride etc in (doing) sth
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You should take pride in your work.
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At first, he took no interest in the baby.
the pleasures/desires/temptations of the flesh (= things such as drinking, eating a lot, or having sex )
vicarious pleasure/satisfaction/excitement etc
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the vicarious pleasure that parents get from their children’s success
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
great
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There's no greater pleasure than handing over money to a local supplier who helps make life easier.
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I have also seen with great pleasure an inter-change of historical pageants between various groups.
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Next morning the stage manager took great pleasure in informing them they had been to a women-only club.
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All of which makes discovering a restaurant like Celadon an even greater pleasure .
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When Sophie praised a necklet of rubies that she was wearing, it appeared to give him great pleasure .
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Rockefeller is said to have monitored the struggle at Ludlow with great pleasure .
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In contrast, the active-positive presidents derive great pleasure out of their work and believe that they can achieve their goals.
real
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And driving a motor caravan is a real pleasure with more than enough power to keep on going.
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One story, which Kay Collins tells with real pleasure , has to do with a quarrel between a husband and wife.
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Dining out is a real pleasure with a wide and tempting choice of menus and venues at a very affordable prices.
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It was a real pleasure to win something for a change but unfortunately I don't like knitting.
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Well, Adolph, it certainly was a real pleasure to hear from you after all these years.
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The low cost of living makes such evenings a real pleasure .
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Robertson's 37 Bar An intimate, sociable pub with no distractions from the real pleasure of drink and talk.
sensual
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Danjit's Mars-tanned features smoothed in a sensual grimace of pleasure .
sheer
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In Budapest, they still strolled around for the sheer pleasure of it.
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However, more wine drinkers are consuming Pinot Noir these days, and the biggest reason is sheer pleasure .
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Dolphins have an impressive ability to imitate and learn, often apparently for the sheer pleasure of doing so.
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Far more people run or swim or kick a ball for sheer pleasure than ever before.
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He says it gives him pleasure , just sheer pleasure.
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The sheer pleasure of discovering other people's domestic arrangement stirred in her.
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This is sheer , unadulterated pleasure .
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The simplest relationship is the sheer pleasure of immediate consumption of an object which offers no resistance.
simple
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More volunteers would also allow the workers simple pleasures like a lunch break without feeling guilty.
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Then again, Cook is a man of relatively simple pleasures .
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It has survived many a crisis and witnessed many turbulent conflicts but today revels in simple pleasures and peaceful serenity.
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One of the simple pleasures of Great Groups is that they are almost never bureaucratic.
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I sing of simple pleasures: making music, dancing, friendship, work and fun.
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Where keeping house and cooking were not female chores but simple tasks of pleasure and survival.
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Now she is enjoying simple pleasures like a trip to the park again.
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It reads quickly, like the Diaz story, a simple , straight forward pleasure .
■ NOUN
boat
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It begins with scenes of Frank Spencer in his latest, shortlived job as the skipper of a pleasure boat .
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The only casualties I hear of are a couple of pleasure boats which dragged their moorings and were damaged on the shore.
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Music and voices came gusting from moored pleasure boats across the plum-red water.
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He saved twelve lives when a pleasure boat capsized in heavy surf at Corona del Mar in California in June 1925.
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These days, the Canal Basin bustles not with goods but with pleasure boats .
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Local environmentalists had speculated whether heavy pleasure boat and fishing craft use of the lake might have resulted in lead pollution.
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Local Activities: Walks, surfing, golf, diving, fishing, bird-watching, pleasure boat trips, sandy beaches.
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The contrast with today couldn't have been greater-we even took a pleasure boat over the same stretch of water.
principle
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Never had enough fun, thinks there's something endemically wrong with the pleasure principle .
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One found the pleasure principle at work again Saturday evening.
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These primary processes always seek pleasure and avoid pain, that is, they function according to the pleasure principle .
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The unconscious operates according to the pleasure principle alone - there are no values exercising restraint over instinctual impulses.
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The reality principle does not dethrone the pleasure principle, but rather safeguards it.
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The pleasure principle should motivate the programmes of study, and always be given high priority.
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The pleasure principle would then be seen as one form of the more fundamental Nirvana principle.
■ VERB
bring
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This being said, it hardly matters provided the tendency brings satisfaction and pleasure to the person, or persons, concerned.
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The red sun warmed him as it rose in the sky, and that brought him pleasure .
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He had brought pleasure by the bucketful to millions of people.
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Simple things that can be transformed through work into something that brings pleasure and satisfaction.
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Conversely, the focus to please one's partner brings personal pleasure proportionate with achieving the goal.
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I try to imagine what would have brought her pleasure and find again how little I know about her.
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Lester has brought pleasure to millions with his fine sportsmanship and personal bravery.
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Everything you mention brings me pleasure .
derive
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Poor girl, I suspected she would not derive much pleasure from that relationship.
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An inability to derive pleasure from doing things for others 14.
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Sadistic people derive perverse pleasure from the suffering of others and may seek out situations in which they can inflict this.
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To derive a little pleasure from his children.
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Second, to remove the standard dessert from the menu would penalise all those people who derive pleasure from conspicuous self-denial.
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In contrast, the active-positive presidents derive great pleasure out of their work and believe that they can achieve their goals.
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Of course, we can be alone and derive pleasure from it.
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Some women derive intense pleasure from it, others less and some none at all.
enjoy
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What you must do now is enjoy gentle pleasure .
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She enjoyed so many bourgeois pleasures , and yet she loathed the thought of settling for them.
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She can only be the other for some man, can only vicariously enjoy his phallic pleasure at being the whole.
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But let's enjoy the pleasure of waiting.
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They enjoyed sophisticated pleasures , less constrained than elsewhere, which seemed to purists appallingly perverse.
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But some, it seemed, enjoyed the pleasures Of looking at the royal treasures.
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Slowly but surely, we can help them reach out and start enjoying the pleasures of playing with a friend.
feel
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Now suddenly she could feel the pleasure such imaginings had aroused uncurling in a warm spiral in the pit of her stomach.
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The other feels his own pleasure , and is a lot more fun.
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He feels the piquant double pleasure of the secret millionaire who has won everyone's heart even in apparent poverty.
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Human creatures under the warm shadows of skyscrapers feeling the heavy pleasure of their nature, and yielding.
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Holly had felt pleasure , allowed it to cocoon him.
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But it need not be conscious to do so, nor does it need to feel pain or pleasure .
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I knew I was on the right track when I felt that thrill of pleasure at placing object, not painting it.
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But no collection of physical lumps can add up to even one simple and momentary feeling of pleasure .
find
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The warm familiarity was back, and they appeared to find pleasure and amusement in each other's company.
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They always seem intent on involvement in the situation and find pleasure and enjoyment in analyzing relationships of others.
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I believe that music-lovers are deluded when they claim to find artistic pleasure in any but a fraction of this music.
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Could I have found one pleasure greater than the next?
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Ana seemed to find pleasure in simply listening, though.
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They could not find lasting zest and pleasure in their success and eventually had given up hope of ever finding it.
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Any normal man would find it a pleasure just to sit still and look at her, drinking her in.
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One found the pleasure principle at work again Saturday evening.
flush
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She is gesturing and smiling, her cheeks flushed with pleasure that there is so much to offer.
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The two women flanking her were flushed with pleasure and excitement.
give
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It gave me a great deal of pleasure to think how much more pained he was going to be in a few moments.
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Yet somehow it had survived, and it gave me pleasure .
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They will give you such pleasure and satisfaction.
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That thought had given her pleasure .
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The clean, light surfaces, among the dingy, sooty walls, gave him pleasure .
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It would give the old man pleasure .
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But everything that gives pleasure and makes money is not an art or a science.
glow
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Midge was glowing with pleasure and pride at the return of her beloved John and Angela.
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She laughed, and her eyes glowed with the pleasure of her discovery.
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Bates himself was warm and genial, and his cohorts were having such a good time that their faces glowed with pleasure .
mix
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No wonder our passengers are often reluctant to mix business with pleasure .
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I didn't want to mix business with pleasure ... I won't go out seriously with anyone from the company.
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Still, learn from experience: and the moral of this story is: don't mix business with pleasure .
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Never mix work with pleasure is always a good policy in work and personal relationships.
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If you can mix business with pleasure , so much better.
read
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He read it with less pleasure ... Please arrange immediately for alternative methods of waking the men under your command.
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But still, underneath the words of disapproval, I read the pleasure and the pride in his eyes.
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To listen to music and read for the pure pleasure of reading.
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In reading one had a pleasure of which, like sleep, one could never be deprived.
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Coleman's lectures can be read even today with pleasure as well as interest.
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All parents hope their child will enjoy reading for the pleasure of it.
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Connections in Reading A &038; B encourage pre-intermediate students to read for pleasure and develop their reading skills.
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There will also be reading for personal pleasure and reading to share pleasure.
take
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Her hand was moving toward his waist, taking its slow pleasure with him.
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Sheisshaus took his pleasures in the midst of Herr Von Diesel's cuckoo-clock collection.
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Indeed, some individuals are quite impervious to cultural incentives, or even take pleasure in flouting them.
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Critics take pleasure in focusing on shortcomings and ignoring strengths.
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I took the keenest pleasure in expelling Phetlock from my old office, two doors down from the Oval.
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While I am still free, I am at liberty to take my pleasure when I choose.
watch
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Gib Sparling had his ham and eggs, and Scruffy the pleasure of watching somebody else peel spuds.
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It was a pleasure to watch her move.
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He is a pleasure to watch .
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Frankly, it was a pleasure to watch those funds switch toward rebuilding the civilian infrastructure instead.
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Obviously there is pleasure in watching Hollywood recognise intelligent life in the typing pool.
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Even to her inexperienced eyes it was clear he was no beginner, and frankly it was a pleasure to watch him.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a glow of pleasure/satisfaction/happiness etc
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Harry felt a glow of pleasure - not least because his darling Alice was making such an obvious success of her career.
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He looked fantastic and had actually acquired quite a suntan - or was it just a glow of happiness?
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Shamlou experienced a glow of satisfaction.
an unmitigated disaster/failure/pleasure etc
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On health and safety issues, however, deregulation has been an unmitigated disaster.
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She had to admit that he would almost certainly not see the situation as an unmitigated disaster.
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So far, the tour had been an unmitigated disaster.
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The raid itself was an unmitigated disaster.
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What is happening in Assam is an unmitigated disaster.
find comfort/pleasure/fulfilment etc in sth
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Ana seemed to find pleasure in simply listening, though.
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But we did find comfort in knowing the food was there.
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Dorothy Wordsworth found fulfilment in ways that elude precise analysis.
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He glanced at Rock Hardy, finding comfort in the familiar face. 5.03 already!
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I could only hope to be happy, and find comfort in the hope, as people do, wherever they are.
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They learned to tolerate loneliness, and find comfort in people, fantasies or activities outside the family.
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They tried to find comfort in knowing they had done their best.
flushed with success/excitement/pleasure etc
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His face was flushed with excitement when they came.
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She is gesturing and smiling, her cheeks flushed with pleasure that there is so much to offer.
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The two women flanking her were flushed with pleasure and excitement.
glow with pride/joy/pleasure etc
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Bates himself was warm and genial, and his cohorts were having such a good time that their faces glowed with pleasure.
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Chest out, glowing with pride we return to base with labrador on lap and conversation stilted.
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Midge was glowing with pleasure and pride at the return of her beloved John and Angela.
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She glowed with pride at a graduation honor he received.
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The President glowed with pride and a sense of accomplishment after this masterstroke of personal diplomacy.
the dubious honour/distinction/pleasure (of doing sth)
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I therefore inherited the dubious honour of making it available on loan to youth workers.
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Mr Edmond has the dubious honour of being tried by the District of Columbia's first anonymous jury.
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Sarah, left alone, had the dubious distinction of being the last of all the Titfords in Frome.
unholy amusement/delight/pleasure
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A really good game of basketball is a pleasure to watch.
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Are you taking the trip for business or pleasure ?
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Cooper took obvious pleasure in announcing the merger.
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Her singing has given pleasure to so many people over the years.
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His French was excellent, and he took pleasure in speaking it.
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His music has brought pleasure to people all over the world.
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I don't very often read for pleasure .
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I noticed with pleasure how much happier he seemed.
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Most craftsmen get a lot of pleasure out of making things.
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My father always got a lot of pleasure from being with his grandchildren.
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One of her greatest pleasures was walking in the mountains.
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Ted enjoyed the simple pleasures of life: his family, his home, and his garden.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I have said before that one of the most appealing things about this boy was the pleasure that he took in drawing.
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In fact they've been instrumental in providing some of the greatest pleasures in my life to date.
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In our headlong pursuit to acquire wealth and worldly pleasures, Christians have become virtually indistinguishable from the rest of the world.
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Still, the thought gave me quite a jolt of pleasure .
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The pleasure of having a vote is that I can exercise my own opinion.
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Walking, or just standing still, had become a pleasure .
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When she woke in the morning, it was to clear blue skies, and she gave a sigh of pleasure .