The finest work was always done for the sheer pleasure of it.

I tried for sheer pleasure to divine the differences between this performance and so many I'd heard in the past.

And then there is the sheer pleasure of being read to.

When I stop at a port, it's only for the sheer pleasure of leaving it.

She felt like a government health warning, but the sheer pleasure of having won her first big race made up for it all.

He gave up all thought and allowed himself the sheer physical pleasure of feeling her body pressed to his.

There had been precious little of sheer pleasure in her life.

Being with her was sheer pleasure, of a sort he had not experienced before.

First they'd gone out for the sheer pleasure of it.

"I did it for the sheer pleasure of showing what the 18th century was all about."