When Abigail was born, in the late sixties, and her parents were thus sentenced for a while to a wearing but oddly pleasurable form of house arrest, the closest we got to takeout was for me to go to an accommodating Italian restaurant across the street and have them pack food in plastic containers that looked as if they were designed for some other purpose.
Sex may be touted as one of the most effective (and pleasurable) forms of stress relief, but it can also be a major source of insecurity for women.
I missed the erotic clarity of commerce — I give you this, you give me that — and was glad when creative spunk started leeching back into unashamedly pleasurable forms.
As a history, The Missing Ink is patchy and too anecdotal for its own good, but its advocacy of one of the most humane and pleasurable forms of self-expression is pretty much irresistible.
For a new breed of teenage boys and young men, clothes shopping, once a chore, is now a pleasurable pastime, a form of recreation, self-expression, even fulfillment, motivations rarely acknowledged in their fathers' day, but that young men now share with female contemporaries.
5. Bite and smile is not the only way to show a pleasurable food experience.
Digital memory gaming involves motivation and possibly creates a pleasurable response, for example, passing a phase.
The study results highlight that a discrete Al2O3 film can be formed on c-TiO2 electrode to passivate superficial oxygen vacancies defects and create a pleasurable surface topography, alone with high optical transparency.
The British version, which has been researched more thoroughly than any other, was, according to Barbarians, Gentlemen and Players (1979) by Eric Dunning and Kenneth Sheard, "a pleasurable form…of excitement akin to that aroused in battle".
