self-enjoyment
- a word derived from enjoyment.
Example Sentences
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But what sets apart is its tone—a seemingly impossible blend of savage self-satire and blissfully oblivious self-enjoyment.
From Slate • Apr. 25, 2013
It’s a remarkably unsentimental performance, free of actressy self-enjoyment: Kelli is no noble martyred war hero but a troubled woman who can be self-pitying, ungrateful, and infuriatingly passive.
From Slate • Feb. 10, 2012
Notwithstanding his great fortune and position, his departure from the university was not a signal with him for that abandonment to the world, and that unbounded self-enjoyment naturally so tempting to youth.
From Venetia by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield
It was by this event that the feelings of the Countess were roused from the long apathy of self-enjoyment.
From The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel by West, Jane
This is what is called living under the LAW OF NATURE; that is to say, the law of self-preservation and self-enjoyment, without any restraint imposed by a regard for the good of our neighbours.
From Advice to Young Men And (Incidentally) to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life. In a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Youth, a Bachelor, a Lover, a Husband, a Father, a Citizen, or a Subject. by Cobbett, William
