We tend to get caught up in pleasure-seeking behavior.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 10, 2006] Reference

The eyes were heat-seeking — and pleasure-seeking — sensors.    From Wordnik.com.  [‘Right Time, Right Place’] Reference

William James gave the deathblow to this pleasure-seeking psychology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Problems of Conduct] Reference

Risk-taking and pleasure-seeking are almost the definition of adolescence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harold Pollack: Don't Let a Tough Campaign Mess with Your Head -- Cases in Point: The Palin Pregnancies] Reference

Martin, a pleasure-seeking, fun-loving, mischief-making lad of twelve years.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Family Robinson or, The Adventures of a Family lost in the Great Desert of the West] Reference

He knew her as vain, shallow, feverishly pleasure-seeking -- a glittering dragon-fly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Swirling Waters] Reference

Though we live as long as you, the pleasure-seeking years of our lives are much shorter.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Caldigate] Reference

It was a pleasure-seeking, pomp-loving aristocracy that surrounded the powerful Empress.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rabbi and Priest A Story] Reference

Despised by the fashionable and pleasure-seeking, they afford a rich field to the observant man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847] Reference

For in all the pleasure-seeking, idleness, and freedom from responsibility of my life apart from.    From Wordnik.com.  [When the Holy Ghost is Come] Reference

How shameful is it that such worth and genius should languish in obscurity, in a pleasure-seeking age!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Holidays at the Grange or A Week's Delight Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside] Reference

Simply seeing pictures of tempting food can light up the pleasure-seeking areas of obese peoples 'brains.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eating to Live or Living to Eat?] Reference

This sounds like it falls into the hedonism/pleasure-seeking categoryand I'm not at all sure I blame you.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-01-01] Reference

The stores are closed, the church-going is very demonstrative, and the pleasure-seeking is very unobtrusive.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hawaiian Archipelago] Reference

It cannot, then, be motivated by a reprehensible desire to adopt a passive, slavish, female pleasure-seeking role.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plato on Friendship and Eros] Reference

One June day, Anthrops joined a pleasure-seeking equestrian party, who rode from the town to spend the day in the woods.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861] Reference

Another consequence of PADD is that people devote more of their time, energy and money to pleasure-seeking distractions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Political Attention Deficit Disorder �� New Psychiatric Condition] Reference

To arrest one of the most noticeable -- there is perhaps no such pleasure-loving and pleasure-seeking people in the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference

The boy may far better work too hard for the communal welfare of the home than to grow up an idle pleasure-seeking parasite.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Minister and the Boy A Handbook for Churchmen Engaged in Boys' Work] Reference

Courageously she was resolving that she would take the first opportunity to escape from this boresome routine of pleasure-seeking.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Apartment Next Door] Reference

The heartless moral code of the cynical young pleasure-seeking male is summed up in the cant phrase anent women: "Find, ... and forget!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Sex Avoided subjects Discussed in Plain English] Reference

Her flush had died away almost to paleness; she had the timidity of a luxurious pleasure-seeking nature, which shrinks from the hint of pain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adam Bede] Reference

You are responsible for your own life, and it is horribly easy to slide into a slack, pleasure-seeking life which will eat all the good out of you.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stray Thoughts for Girls] Reference

Her constitution, never a strong one, had been undermined by the luxurious pleasure-seeking of her life and the deadly nerve-poison of the morphia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Swirling Waters] Reference

But a girl may drift into a very selfish pleasure-seeking life, and the tendency of the day is to regard this as a defendable and lawful line of life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stray Thoughts for Girls] Reference

Now, most discussions I had seen used “floating world” as a synonym for the urban, idle, pleasure-seeking life around the red-light district of Edo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Discarding the Post-Colonial Other: A Vindication of Plain Speaking] Reference

And thank you Ms Snazzles for your encouragement of my pleasure-seeking... however I usually end up hanging around, waiting for the pleasure to come to me!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-01-01] Reference

To deviate it from it might cede the scholarly territory to those radical formalists and pleasure-seeking aesthetes who still lurk outside the campus walls.    From Wordnik.com.  [The State of Criticism] Reference

Here in the pleasure-seeking atmosphere of France my clean living, my addiction to sport and my everlasting habit of drinking milk are more conspicuous than ever.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stuka Pilot]

Don't know about you, but my teenage years bore about as much relation to the pleasure-seeking abandon of Skins as Kenny Rogers does to an egg-and-cress sandwich.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charlie Brooker's Screen burn: Amish: The World's Squarest Teenagers] Reference

The desolate stretch of marshland, with its lonely windmill, meant nothing then to the court nor to the busy fortune-hunting and pleasure-seeking inhabitants of Paris.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Versailles] Reference

Unhindered by the circumstances of our birth, we can become who we want to be and create our own "race"; less pleasure-seeking motivated, but more soul-seeking motivated.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of Play 2: Virtual World Identity Panel] Reference

Rocky Horror gained notoriety over the years for its interactive midnight showings, in which audience members turned up dressed as the pleasure-seeking characters of the film.    From Wordnik.com.  [So, How Sanitized Is Glee's Version of The Rocky Horror Picture Show?] Reference