Sentence examples for pleasurable action from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile the violence simply never stops, getting more and more OTT until finally, by the closing credits, one starts to wonder not only how many characters were killed during the making of this insanely pleasurable action thriller, but how many of its cast perished, too.

At some level, Pauline knew even then that this sort of behavior was not healthy, even though it felt good -- just as many alcoholics recall, with a mix of awe and terror, the flush of warmth and belonging that their first drink brings, quickly followed by repeating the pleasurable action over and over again, until ending up vomiting or passed out in a friend's front yard.

Our minds can trick us into thinking that these pleasurable actions and states should be reserved for vacations, or times when we don't have anything else we "could" or "should" be doing.

According to Steiner, the extra quality shared by all evil actions and lacking from merely wrongful actions, is the perpetrator's pleasure; evil action consists in taking pleasure in doing wrong, no merely wrongful action is pleasurable for its doer (for more about Steiner's theory of evil see Section 3.4).

He described the child during the first two years of life as being in a sensorimotor stage, chiefly concerned with mastering his own innate physical reflexes and extending them into pleasurable or interesting actions.

Pleasure-producing activity has tended to generate biologically inheritable associations between certain types of actions, pleasurable feelings and feelings of approval.

Notably, the flexible TiO2/C nanofibrous film showed pleasurable catalytic activity.

Calling it a habitual response allows me to shift the focus to the pleasurable aspects of the action, even if it's just getting it done, like bill-paying.

That good actions often felt deeply frustrating and bad actions supremely pleasurable seemed to me to be creation's greatest flaw, not its crowning virtue.

The designers of 2001's Halo, a variation of the blueprint laid down by the original Doom, talked about the all-important 30-second loop of play, a sequence of actions so pleasurable that a player would not tire of its repetition over the course of a game.

I read less fiction these days, and it worries me, although my recent discovery that wearing reading glasses makes the action of reading more pleasurable is, I think, up there with discovering how to split the atom or America.