People of greater rank than Mortimer's are not dispatched by hanging, but by the axe, and the scenes of such executions are the set-pieces of the book, most eloquently written — all hung with verbal crepe, so to speak, sombre, shivery, oozing a kind of pleasurable Victorian morbidity.
Fulfilling one's duty, for Locke, carries its own kind of pleasurable motive it makes us happy.
From what I understand from conversations with ASMRers, it's a tingle in your brain, a kind of pleasurable headache that can creep down your spine.
In contrast, the summer holidays of 2010, except for the very poorest families, will probably be full of different kinds of pleasurable experiences – day trips, foreign holidays, visits to parks and museums.
Indeed, the bug-crushing experiment suggested that everyday sadists may have more muted emotional responses to all kinds of pleasurable activities – so perhaps their random acts of cruelty are attempts to break through the emotional numbness.
Instead of just inserting tab A into slot B, we as gay men have man slots and tabs that can be connected to create all kinds of pleasurable sensations.
The covers, created by SexShop365, position a small vibrator in the middle of the seat, offering the kind of "great pleasurable heights" more stimulating than a beautiful view or endorphins from a long ride.
Human happiness does not consist in every kind of pleasure, but it does consist in one kind of pleasure the pleasure felt by a human being who engages in theoretical activity and thereby imitates the pleasurable thinking of god.
The narrator sorts through a variety of pleasurable experiences -- eating candy, gardening, attending a dinner party -- while weighing their potential for making the kind of memories that will comfort her when she's old, alone and in pain.
But watching Mr. Mendes and his staff at work was a moving reminder of how much finely focused collaboration is involved in the creation of all kinds of aesthetically pleasurable experiences.
That in many places one misses a favoured reference or discussion is, for a necessarily occasional book like this, not so much a criticism as part of the kind of inevitable and pleasurable bickering that is the very point.
