The stage is a place of delicious illusion, a world of adults who never have to leave childhood pleasures behind.

The theory is that these experiences are more than a chance to return to childhood pleasures, or childhood terrors, depending on your childhood.

The boy realizes he has grown up and the simple childhood pleasures of the penny arcade will always be remembered.

The play, though, is as warm and satisfying as the childhood pleasure in the finale: chicken soup with rice.

And, of course, the lack of simple childhood pleasures like McDonald's.

The Gantry had become so much more important, a house of enchantment and adult delights, not one of childhood pleasures.

Hurrying children, the study shows, may deprive them of some childhood pleasures, while leaving them with no lasting academic advantage.

I've tried to work out exactly what it is about these childhood pleasures that exerts such a hold over me even now.

Although it never really went away, the custom is now becoming very trendy in France as a nostalgic wave of baby boomers recall their childhood gastronomic pleasures.

Those adults are more likely to convey ambivalence about a period that mixed strong doses of misery and repression with undeniable childhood pleasures.