He regards women as disposable pleasures rather than as meaningful pursuits.
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Pursuits
Synonyms for "pursuits" (131 found)
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One day you wake up like a skylark, a winged express at its fastest, devising pursuits to embark on, but this disappears by breakfast.
Source: tatoeba (5158019)
But even the most spiritual life has its temptations. The extravagant fever of industrialism and intellectualism had so subtly poisoned the plant-men that when at last they rebelled against it they swung too far, falling into the snare of a vegetal life as one-sided as the old animal life had been. Little by little they gave less and less energy and time to "animal" pursuits, until at last their nights as well as their days were spent wholly as trees, and the active, exploring, manipulating, animal intelligence died in them forever.
Source: tatoeba (8877818)
My life is a mess of numerous inchoate pursuits which I continuously delude myself into thinking I will complete.
Source: tatoeba (11125425)
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