After unsatisfyingly faking, she found that sex could become pleasurable again through novelty.
This suggests, the authors wrote, that the insula is critical for behaviors whose bodily effects become pleasurable because they are learned, like cigarette smoking.
By contrast, "our subjective experience of vigorous exercise or of learning to play a musical instrument may even be mildly aversive at first, but will gradually become pleasurable, and ever more so as additional time passes.
You come to terms with life in such a way that it becomes pleasurable.
As the weather finally catches up with the calendar, it becomes pleasurable again to wander neighborhoods like the historic West Village, filled with charming little restaurants.
But when watching a thriller like "Rosemary's Baby" (No. 9) or "Carrie" (46), it is really our own distress that becomes pleasurable.
Levine, who worked in stores and factories in his youth, once labored on a road construction crew, and in an interview with a literary journal recalled the joy of getting stronger through hard work: "My body had adapted to the work that I once found so punishing, and now the work became pleasurable, the way difficult exercise can be.
Then, after several weeks, the dilation stops being painful and becomes pleasurable, at least at times – the discovery of sexual sensation is another huge landmark, and finally I'm excited not just about returning to my pre-surgical normality but about discovering a post-surgical one.
The many such passages of narrative self-questioning have a certain heaviness after a while, as does some of Frayn's symbolism, like the mysterious X's in Keith's mother's calendar that recur with the new moon and that reappear as the occult sign on an old tin discovered near the Barns, and then become the pleasurable, nauseating kisses Stephen gets from someone who turns out to be spying on him.
The open-question argument turns any proposed definition of good into a question (e.g., "Good means pleasurable" becomes "Is everything pleasurable good?")—Moore's point being that the proposed definition cannot be correct, because if it were the question would be meaningless.
Time spent with the old man was a pleasure, and the apprentice found that because he looked forward to his Tuesday and Thursday evenings, to his Sunday mornings, his other days became more pleasurable too.
