Was it really necessary to explain the basic pleasure of life?

We ate a substantial amount of a crispy lobster tail, battered, fried and thereby guaranteed to yield at least some basic pleasure.

Getting off the hook is one of the basic human pleasures.

The album is for adults, but it doesn't lose any of rock's basic pleasures, never forgetting a backbeat and a grinding electric guitar.

Sometimes you just need a score like that, filled with basic pleasures, and Silvestri's work here succeeds on that mark with aplomb.

These entities never let a little warlike disharmony interfere with the basic pleasures of life.

He was like an animal, she thought, nothing on its mind but the most basic physical pleasure.

But a three-chord stomp can still get a crowd jumping, and concerns about cultural relevance fade when such basic pleasures are invoked.

- is not only bogus, but represents a Calvinist (no pun intended) denial of a basic pleasure.

Even while acceding to basic pop-music pleasures, the trio keeps shifting around, undercutting those pleasures or suddenly vaulting into grandiloquence.