Just a few thousand dollars more than the original purchase price of our house in 1970, the room has brought me all the obvious anticipated pleasures.

The fire had been a cruel coincidence, robbing him of his anticipated pleasure.

She shivered with a blend of remembered and anticipated pleasure.

The inclement weather had made the hunt a chore instead of the anticipated pleasure.

These unconscious signals of anticipated pleasure or pain help drive the decision-making process.

By the time he arrived in her chamber, the young man's eyes were already glazed with anticipated pleasure, and his mouth was slack.

The voice was deeply satisfied and soaked with anticipated pleasure.

Grinning with anticipated pleasure, Drake raised his free hand for silence.

Apparently the pain and wrongdoing did not weigh for a moment against the anticipated pleasure.

Phil sat down as directed, not without feeling a little awkward, yet with a sense of anticipated pleasure.