Sentence examples for ability to pleasure from inspiring English sources

Tully's pleasure in her awakening body and ability to pleasure others is infectious.

But through our shared basic ability to refer to pleasure, preserved since childhood, Stoics and hedonists continue to disagree about a shared subject, without the Stoics sharing in our common conception that pleasure is feeling that is actually good.

Nothing is fun anymore … you don't go out to movies, parties, all that, because you just think, what's the point?" This reduced ability to experience pleasure is called anhedonia (literally "without pleasure" in Greek), and it is a core symptom of depressive illness, alongside low energy and low mood.

But if there was, in fact, a beginning to the epidemic of depression, sometime in the 16th or 17th century, it confronts us with this question: could this apparent decline in the ability to experience pleasure be in any way connected with the decline in opportunities for pleasure, such as carnival and other traditional festivities?

While some psychiatric disorders are associated with the loss of the ability to feel pleasure, called anhedonia, the students represent the first evidence for not feeling pleasure from only one specific pleasing stimulant, the researchers report online today in Current Biology.

I think I inherited her ability to bring pleasure to people through food".

"People are taking it to feel good but they're actually destroying their ability to feel pleasure," she said.

The reality is that, as people age, their conflicts grow less acute and their ability to draw pleasure from the more agreeable aspects of life increases.

In his conclusion Dr. Balcombe argues that an animal's ability to experience pleasure is a strong factor in considering the rights of animals.

"When my mother died, I realized that a certain degree of my ability to take pleasure in my own accomplishments was gone," Kushner says.

I cannot even try to guess your wife's experience, or the motives of those who performed it, but I am sure it has had some effect on her conceptualisation of sex and her ability to experience pleasure.