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.
It is not only an instrument to generate pleasure, but is also an expression of human love, hence its greatness, which goes well beyond a mere reproductive mechanism.
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.
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?
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 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.
The idea of their benefit generates sympathetic pleasure, increasing the sentiment of approbation (T, 364 65).
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.
Never can so many fine actors have generated so little pleasure (Bill Nighy, Kenneth Branagh, Philip Seymour Hoffman and several other luminaries are all sunk in Mr Curtis's rustbucket).
The effect produced by the "beautiful" object is to set our understanding and imagination in "free play" with one another, and it is the pleasure generated by this free play that leads us to judge the object to be beautiful (Kant, 98, 102 3).
