Sentence examples for bring about pleasure from inspiring English sources

In particular, what Śāntideva is concerned with here is the experienced quality of certain feelings; he is trying to stop "pain and suffering" and bring about "pleasure and happiness".

Through regular success in attaining pleasure, anticipations of pleasure become associated with the sorts of action that bring about that pleasure.

On this theory, pleasure is the prime motivator, the primary end in itself, and the anticipation of pleasure serves as an immediate cause of bodily motions which in turn bring about that pleasure.

Poetry does not bring about the pleasure that the narrator original asks for, but it does liberate him from his desire for only pleasure.

This kind of laughter can bring about feelings of pleasure, and is often spontaneous, but that may be because we have conditioned ourselves to use it automatically.

She may not accept a pleasure for herself if doing so involves passing up the opportunity to bring about a slightly larger pleasure for a stranger.

Sontag is aghast at the "barbarism" and "nihilism" that her advocacy of "cultural mixes and insolence and defense of pleasure" has helped bring about.

Furthermore, when it is proposed that God engages in creation for his own pleasure (prīti), Vasubandhu replies that this means that God is not sovereign because He requires a means (upāya) to bring about a cause, namely his own pleasure.

Mr. Harrison's underlying idea is that giving should be joyous, an infectious pleasure at the capacity to bring about change.

You also have the added pleasure of watching them develop, combined with a ridiculous sense of delight in having helped to bring about the display.

But his pleasures had a basis in principle: "The society's stated purpose … was to counteract the machine-made products of Hollywood and help bring about change in society by the display of radically new codes and content".