Sentence examples similar to agreeable object from inspiring English sources
On the other hand, however, judgments of beauty are unlike judgments of the agreeable in not involving desire for the object; more importantly and centrally, they make a normative claim to everyone's agreement.
This conception of love as a primordial emotion is something like Descartes' view in Passions of the Soul, §79: "Love is an emotion of the soul caused by a movement of the spirits, which impells the soul to join itself willingly [de volonté] to objects that appear to be agreeable to it".
Hutcheson, as Reid understands him, posits but one ingredient: an agreeable feeling or emotion resembling nothing in the object.
A beautiful object or action strikes us as amiable, agreeable, and desirable.
Herder could have included these sentences in the footnote from Kalligone (pp. 672 3) in which he objects to Kant's supposedly complete separation of the beautiful from the agreeable and the good.
He goes on: "A painter's representation of heaven would be nothing without swarms of these little inconsistent objects, flying about, or perching on the clouds; and yet there is something so agreeable in their form, that the eye is reconciled and overlooks the absurdity, and we find them in the carving and painting of almost every church.
A novel object is one new or strange to their viewer; its apprehension "fills the soul with an agreeable surprise" and "gratifies its curiosity" (Addison and Steele 1879, no. 412).
Professional, agreeable waiters.
SERVICE Agreeable, speedy, amusing.
