Sentence examples for by pleasurable from inspiring English sources

The nucleus accumbens is also downregulated, to reduce the propensity for distraction by pleasurable stimuli or the capacity to experience pleasure.

Many linguists say that the acquisition of Standard English is enhanced by pleasurable learning of poems and songs.

Eric Schiermeyer, a co-founder of Zynga, an online game company and maker of huge hits like FarmVille, has said he has helped addict millions of people to dopamine, a neurochemical that has been shown to be released by pleasurable activities, including video game playing, but also is understood to play a major role in the cycle of addiction.

His attacks were characteristically brought on by any forms of stress, even by pleasurable events.

Patients with CVS suffer from motion sickness, attacks may be brought on by pleasurable events ("positive stress"), and patients often have relief from water exposure (Fleisher et al. 2005).

If Mill holds a preference or functional conception of pleasure, according to which pleasures are mental states that the subject prefers and other things being equal would prolong, then perhaps he could claim that pleasures categorically preferred by competent judges are more pleasurable pleasures.

Then we freshened up for another dinner banquet, warmed by the pleasurable, high-end comforts of our Danube holiday.

He has known "depressions, inabilities to cope with the drug experience, but they're vastly outnumbered by the pleasurable experiences".

Both sex and food are closely related by being pleasurable and physical.

55 Such facial expressions and positive emotions enhance social relations by producing analogous pleasurable feelings in others, 17 by rewarding the efforts of others, and by encouraging ongoing social contact.

They are bound together more by memories, both pleasurable and guilty, than any continuing supernatural connection.