Sentence examples for pleasant state from inspiring English sources

His pleasant state of intoxication is interrupted by Alfred singing in his prison cell.

He is in a pleasant state which he calls "la belle indifference".

This pleasant state lasted until the omelet chapter, which fortunately is near the end.

Therefore, in this chapter, comfort is discussed as a pleasant state or feeling as a reaction to the physical environment.

Amicably divorced from Ines's mother, devoted to his own mother and his aging dog, he has settled into a permanent, pleasant state of not-quite-adulthood, in which he reserves the right not to take anything too seriously.

You watch the tops of hedges and fields go smoothly and surreally by, you nod and smile at other bargers, you lie on top of the boat - and your blood pressure drops to a pleasant state of near-catatonia.

Every addictive substance, according to a report this month in The New England Journal of Medicine, induces pleasant states or relieves distress.

Moreover and this is an objection raised by all the British Idealists against hedonism since pleasant states perish there is no sense in which a number of them can be enjoyed together as felt states rather than merely remembered.

Classical Utilitarianism, for example, sees particular pleasant states as the goal of action but cannot present any of these as having any intrinsic value, for they are only means to the maximization of pleasure and could be replaced by any other means that were more, or equally, effective.

The central objection was that since pleasures are a "perishing series," with each one passing away once it has been experienced, it is not possible to accumulate a sum of pleasures, and since there are always more pleasures available than anyone has experienced, Mill's moral goal of maximizing pleasant states was meaningless.

It's that Venn diagram sweet spot, the intersection between our environment and our most pleasant states of mind.