Too many years without pleasure had left it hard for him to know even how to make the sound.

The man looked up, stared without pleasure, then got to his feet.

Something that can make you do without pleasure or even accept a lot of pain to get it.

S. with more or less benefit to myself, though without great pleasure.

"Everything keeps getting bigger," said the old man, without much pleasure.

In old age he hunts without pleasure, having no other means of making a living.

Another figure moved toward him through the crowd: one that he recognized without pleasure.

"You are boring, like your nation, which makes love without pleasure."

Not without enormous pleasure, but sweet and sad in its own way.

I have decided, not without pleasure, to let the opportunity pass by.