pleasure-bent

Whether the reader identifies more closely with the risk-taking, pleasure-bent younger son or the hard-working, compliant older brother is of little consequence.

They Call Me Dad Ken Canfield 2005

Whether the reader identifies more closely with the risk-taking, pleasure-bent younger son or the hard-working, compliant older brother is of little consequence.

They Call Me Dad Ken Canfield 2005

Whether the reader identifies more closely with the risk-taking, pleasure-bent younger son or the hard-working, compliant older brother is of little consequence.

They Call Me Dad Ken Canfield 2005

Juan de Beistegui, known as Johnny, had married a daughter of the Duc de Rohan — a union that greatly pleased his socially conscious uncle — and spent weekends with his six children at Groussay in a family atmosphere, very different from the milieu of the pleasure-bent court that had always surrounded Carlos, who was called Charlie by his friends.

All That Glittered Dunne, Dominick 1998

And in spite of the soldiers thronging the sunlit streets, Paris was seemingly the same Paris one had always known, gay -- insouciante, pleasure-bent.

A Traveller in War-Time Winston Churchill 1909

And in spite of the soldiers thronging the sunlit streets, Paris was seemingly the same Paris one had always known, gay -- insouciante, pleasure-bent.

Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

Following the first world war and rejecting their forebears' idealism, pleasure-bent youths of the 1920s concentrated on living for the moment.

The Guardian World News Mark Townsend 2010

Following the first world war and rejecting their forebears' idealism, pleasure-bent youths of the 1920s concentrated on living for the moment.

The Guardian World News 2010