Norris had maintained that God is the immediate cause of pleasure for us and is therefore the sole and proper object of our love.
For her, watching "Rosemary's Baby" is a pure pleasure, and watching it with someone else is a cause for sharing the pleasure, not for beating it to death at every turn with analysis.
Some focus on the bad as cause of pleasure, others on the bad as object of pleasure.
All this he juggles with magazine columns, his Harley Street clinic, and a voracious Twitter audience who rely on him to answer (and always in capitals) such varied questions as "can HPV get in your eye and lead to cancer?" ("NOT THAT WE KNOW OF, NO") to "will sticking my penis up the hoover (for pleasure) cause any damage to my genetils [sic]?" ("QUITE PROBABLY").
He calls the kind of akrasia caused by an appetite for pleasure "unqualified akrasia"—or, as we might say, akrasia "full stop"; akrasia caused by anger he considers a qualified form of akrasia and calls it akrasia "with respect to anger".
This month, however, the company's best performances of it in three decades filled me with pleasure and cause for hope.
Second, we sometimes approve of "virtue in rags": an honest and generous person who due to no fault of her own is incapacitated and in no position to benefit others is not considered morally worse than someone with the same traits who actually does cause pleasure for us to sympathize with.
The above-mentioned studies were lab-based experiments, often using stimuli designed to cause discomfort, so may not necessarily apply to S3D content viewed for pleasure.
Grant Youngblood, playing all four Offenbach villains, and Gerard Powers as Hoffmann gave much pleasure but were cause for worry as well.
The other reason is that there is a new generation of Scottish chefs who are determined to make a meal a pleasure, not a cause for heartburn.
Alcohol is actually a depressant, and sometimes causes negative feelings to grow worse even while it is being consumed for pleasure.
