The phrase 'generate pleasure' is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it to describe a situation in which, for example, performing a certain activity might bring about good feelings and enjoyment. For example: "Gardening can generate a great deal of pleasure."
This is Stoppard writing with his defences down; yet the play also wittily explores subjects including the power of language, the provenance of protest and the capacity of pop music to rival the classics in generating pleasure.
Typically, motivation comes to fruition by "going for" something that has generated pleasure in the past through a learning process wanting what we like.
Because such foods are rewarding by generating pleasure and satisfaction, particularly in a world that for many is becoming increasingly stressful, the term "food addiction" has been used in analogy to drug addiction.
The rest of us just live in their world, trying to make sense of the spectacle of art, money and ambition they generate, taking pleasure and insight where we find it, which is as often in the city itself as in the array of artworks dished up for our momentary delectation.
Without a war or a game with everything on the line, there isn't sufficient at stake to trigger that adrenaline rush which them enrolls the testosterone to generate dopamine pleasure.
Now, two-thirds of the way through, the present has generated more pleasure, positivity, long-term effects, unexpected outcomes and spin-offs than I ever imagined.
There were endless showings of movies in which he perfected the cowardly innocent abroad -- trekking through the jungle with Crosby, fighting Indians with Jane Russell, outwitting a stream of ghosts, pirates, spies, psychos, vaudevillians, swordsmen and pneumatic women, generating more pleasure than not.
The idea of their benefit generates sympathetic pleasure, increasing the sentiment of approbation (T, 364 65).
As we all entire the bright VR future we find ourselves at an impasse: we all have amazing 3D models we want to see appear before us like tiny digital floating incubi but how do you get those selfsame models into your randomly generated digital pleasure palace?
With The Revolution's Echoes, Dave insists that we must grapple with the uncomfortable truth that some forms of music choose to support authoritarianism, generating new pleasures and new politics in the process.
