pleasure-seekers

Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman/Associated Press An evaporated part of Lake Travis left boats and pleasure-seekers high and dry near a dock in Austin.

Drought in the Lone Star State 2011

Every posada and place of amusement seemed to be at full steam, and packed with pleasure-seekers, for it was abundantly evident that if many of the immigrants out in the wagons and shanties were on their beam-ends, there was a multitude in Santa Fe with money to burn.

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

Sure, the author concedes, kids have always been pleasure-seekers, but longtime teachers report that what we're now witnessing "is different from anything we have ever seen in the young before."

Complaining about a generation of spoiled kids -- again Alfie Kohn 2010

In New York City, where the concentration of wealth was greatest, the President's message was at first received by the pleasure-seekers and idlers of the upper levels with languid amusement.

"Power" by Harl Vincent, part 7 Johnny Pez 2010

Warning against the “indifferent parvenus, the reckless gamesters, the frivolous and the giddy,” the communal press urged Jewish pleasure-seekers to cultivate their intellect as well as their sensations.

Leisure and Recreation in the United States. 2009

Both Beats and hippies used marijuana, and some Beats, particularly Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters, proved pivotal in the spread of LSD beyond the circle of scientists conducting research on the drug during the early 1960s. 26 Nevertheless, the vivacity of the new crowd led some Beat luminaries to suspect that these were youthful pleasure-seekers, rather than true bohemians dedicated to a life of art.

Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 1965–83 2007

On a Saturday night, crowds of local pleasure-seekers fill Richmond's rehabbed historic center.

Barbecue and Beyond 2009

Mankind is not comprised solely of profit - and pleasure-seekers; the quest for prestige and dominance and an instinct for nihilism are also inscribed in human nature, nowhere more so than in the Middle East.

Ron Paul and Foreign Policy 2008

The region was known before World War II for pickles and pleasure-seekers, and it's again a thriving vacation spot, where from June to September you can take slow boat trips, stopping off along the way for a gewürzgurke -- a semi-sour pickle flavored with tarragon, thyme, and a dozen or so other herbs and spices -- or an old-fashioned "sour" pickle, with all the tang and bite of fresh sauerkraut.

In a Pickle -- Happily So 2008

Mankind is not comprised solely of profit - and pleasure-seekers; the quest for prestige and dominance and an instinct for nihilism are also inscribed in human nature, nowhere more so than in the Middle East.

Ron Paul and Foreign Policy 2008