Ratings of pleasantness vs. unpleasantness ranged between -10 indicating that pain stimuli were extremely unpleasant and 10 suggesting that pain stimulation was highly pleasant.
Quinine was highly unpleasant and disgusting, juice was highly pleasant and not disgusting and water was neither pleasant nor disgusting.
The H2 is highly capable off-road, but it's not especially pleasant on pavement.
Aristotelians identify well-being with virtuous activity, yet Aristotle plainly takes this to be a highly pleasant condition, indeed the most pleasant kind of life there is (see, e.g., NE, Bk. I 8; Bk. VII 13).
This has been a highly pleasant surprise".
Although the interior is pleasant, highly flexible, and has magnificent views, notably of the cathedral, that desire for views means the upper galleries stick out of the building like airport pods with gigantic windows, breaking the nice curves of the roof and the uplift of the spire.
Thirty-two InternAffectiveffective Picture System (IAPS) photographs were grouped into 4 sets of 8 photographs: highly pleasant-arousing (sexual content and adventures), highly pleasant-relaxing pictures (landscapes, flowers or babies), neutral on both valence/arousal, and highly unpleasant-arousing ones.
The descriptors for pleasantness/unpleasantness were 0, extremely pleasant; 1, very pleasant; 2, moderately pleasant; 3, slightly pleasant; 4, neither pleasant nor unpleasant; 5, slightly unpleasant; 6, moderately unpleasant; 7, very unpleasant; and 8, extremely unpleasant.
For a while the conversation couldn't have been more pleasant: our highly romantic first meeting, our early years, our difficulties overcoming ethnic differences, our great intellectual rapport.
In the wealthy, mainly white part we're discussing, it's a pleasant but highly conformist city where people dress terribly and expend much of their cultural energy in a strange quest to seem like "regular Americans", whatever those are.
