anticipatory pleasure

The thought of the boy's big blue eyes, so like Nancy's, didn't give him anticipatory pleasure.

Tarrant finished writing and gave a sigh of anticipatory pleasure.

Yes, of course there are - and we've tracked down 25 of them for your anticipatory pleasure.

Eponine felt the surge of anticipatory pleasure as she put the cigarette in her mouth.

He'd recognized the steel at her core, but that had only added to his anticipatory pleasure, for he hated the proud ones.

Was he feeling a smug male anticipatory pleasure?

Spike heard Drusilla whimper with anticipatory pleasure, and that sound drove him all the more.

Smiling with the anticipatory pleasure of telling this tale tomorrow to astounded family and friends, I drifted off to sleep on my little rollaway.

Floy, who had been cutting himself a slice of ham, looked up, because there was a lick of anticipatory pleasure in Goibniu's tone.

But Pastor Gosslau showed a letter from the foundation in which it promised him its eventual return here and included some photographs "for your anticipatory pleasure."

'More or less,' she echoed him in intonation, although she couldn't duplicate his raised eyebrows, his look of anticipatory pleasure. '

Sitting in the basement of her church, on the hard oak chair, in front of her innermost circle of believers, Grace shivered with anticipatory pleasure.

Behavioral Approach System (BAS) - mediates the emotion of 'anticipatory pleasure,' resulting from reactions to desirable stimuli.

If you live where patches of snow are still visible in the hillsides, or where there is still ice on lakes and reservoirs, it may prove difficult to conjure anticipatory pleasure.

Readers in whom such words produce a frisson of anticipatory pleasure will find the story that follows as civilized, as restrained yet as modestly bracing as a cup of Earl Grey tea.

Have not purely mental pleasures and pains been described already as in some cases anticipations of the bodily ones; from which we may infer that anticipatory pleasures and pains have to do with the future?

They laughed and talked and gossiped and seemed to be deriving much anticipatory pleasure from the show they were about to witness: they might have been on their way to the theater to see a comedy enacted.

And in the work he found a salve of anticipatory pleasure, so that he ended the task to the humming of the tune he had heard a movie theatre playing in town as he rode by on his way home.

One way to heighten such anticipatory pleasure would be to attend the Ford World Fishing and Outdoor Exposition Feb. 28-March 3 at the Rockland Community College Field House in Suffern, N.Y.

A huge stir of anticipatory pleasure went through the populace, as Hercules Invictus had no temple funds, so could not keep the moneys donated to him; they were spent in his and the triumphing general's name on providing a public feast for all free men in Rome.

What he turned on her now was a look of mild surprise, almost of pleasure; but there was a curl to the lips that would have betrayed, had she not already been able to feel it, the suspicion and annoyance he felt, tinged with both apprehension and a peculiar kind of anticipatory pleasure.