I like to have a few pleasant objects around me, without ever really wanting to aspire to the Room Beautiful.
Subjects were requested to smell and/or observe the experimenter while grasping three foods ("sandwich with Mortadella", "sandwich with Salame" and "Bombolone", see Methods, and one non-food-related, but still carrying a pleasant odour, object, "Soap").
It is remarkably pleasant, before the failure starts, to use one's hand and wrist, to hold and savor pleasant objects, for the purpose of copying in one's own delightful penmanship the marks of those who have gone before.
The child generates an appetite for objects of this sort and in the presence of an apple the child will have a mixed reaction: a pleasant feeling because the object is seen as pleasant, but a painful feeling because she is not in possession of, or enjoying, the apple.
It is a pleasant, if not friendly, soothing object.
On Bosanquet's view, the aesthetic attitude is "contemplative"—it is a "preoccupation with a pleasant feeling, embodied in an object which can be contemplated" (Three Lectures, p. 10).
A pleasant summery aroma.
A pleasant simple cheddar.
A pleasant surprise, then.
