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  • Her ideal combination of "paid worker, parent, community member, self-improver and pleasure-seeker" would indeed be wonderful, and should naturally apply to both sexes, but it sounds more like the achievements of a lifetime than a realistic picture of the years with young children, however evenly the parenting is split.

    Shattered: Modern Motherhood and the Illusion of Equality by Rebecca Asher – review 2011

  • It is very honest, a portrayal of a seeker and her adventures from pleasure-seeker to ascetic spirituality.

    Thoughts On Eat, Pray, Love, Breaking the Rules and Bali - by Joanna Penn | The Creative Penn 2009

  • She had the requisite fireworks for Violetta the pleasure-seeker, but also beautifully pared down her tone for the Act II duet "Dite alla giovine" and the high-wire finish of "Addio del passato" in Act III.

    Archive 2008-03-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • She had the requisite fireworks for Violetta the pleasure-seeker, but also beautifully pared down her tone for the Act II duet "Dite alla giovine" and the high-wire finish of "Addio del passato" in Act III.

    Pretty Woman Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This term for a long-handled gardening tool can also be an immoral pleasure-seeker.

    CNN Transcript Aug 28, 2009 2009

  • Should any gentleman place himself near enough to have his person touched by the playful fingers of the pleasure-seeker, and evince no repugnance, the latter turns around and, after a short conversation, the bargain is struck.

    Satyricon 2007

  • Unfortunately, this characterization isn't a perfect fit, and whereas Casanova can be summed up as a pleasure-seeker who always wants more than he can get, the Doctor is--or should be--a little more complicated.

    One Tiny Observation About Russell T. Davies' Casanova Abigail Nussbaum 2006

  • Unfortunately, this characterization isn't a perfect fit, and whereas Casanova can be summed up as a pleasure-seeker who always wants more than he can get, the Doctor is--or should be--a little more complicated.

    Archive 2006-10-01 Abigail Nussbaum 2006

  • In the story's original incarnation, Clive Barker's The Hellbound Heart, Frank is a pleasure-seeker who has indulged in every flavor of perversion money can buy.

    Deader is Better Douglas Hoffman 2005

  • In the story's original incarnation, Clive Barker's The Hellbound Heart, Frank is a pleasure-seeker who has indulged in every flavor of perversion money can buy.

    Archive 2005-07-01 Douglas Hoffman 2005

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