Sentence examples for a pleasurable state from inspiring English sources

In Wheaton, she quietly worked the crowd into a pleasurable state of shared outrage.

This is a pleasurable state; people in it seem to possess a joie de vivre.

For example, in the third essay, 'Pleasure for Pleasure's Sake', a still-classic critique of hedonistic utilitarianism, Bradley argues that its individualism is insupportable, as is its hedonistic conception of happiness as a pleasurable state identifiable independently of the means by which it is attained (so that it could in principle be achieved more conveniently than through moral behaviour).

What might be less obvious and more interesting is the fact that Paul's matriphobic fear of Annie may disguise a desire to return to the mother, to regress to a pleasurable state of total dependency and reliance upon the mother to fulfill his every need.

It was suggested that this crossloading may be due to the fact that the item taps the loss of a pleasurable state (that is, 'being at ease'), consistent with the other depression items tapping anhedonia (loss of pleasure).

Even the act of adjusting the way we sit down is really a desire for a more pleasurable state.

To index the presence of an intensely pleasurable state, we used the "musical chills" response.

Our participants also used drugs to relax, achieve a pleasurable mental state and a sense of belonging [ 7, 15, 23] and our findings confirm a hierarchy of acceptability of substances [ 15], with cannabis as the most acceptable.

The task here is to calm ourselves in the face of these stimulating emotions, to simply notice these feelings and, again, sit with them without being compelled to take action to maintain this pleasurable state.

Participants who did not report pleasurable states in response to a particular excerpt did not show any significant changes in psychophysiological arousal, whereas others who found those same excerpts pleasurable showed a distinct profile of increasing sympathetic nervous system activity as pleasure increased.

I was bored for a while, then intermittently entranced, and, finally, drawn into pleasurable states of meditation.